Check out the pallette of available materials.
Stainless steel, titanium, scores of alloys.
Ability to strengthen the resulting parts by sintering, annealing, infusing them with bronze, heat treating, etc.
Wow! That’s impressive. The company I worked at had one back in ‘98. It was pretty awesome stuff back then but it sure didn’t have all those materials available. Thanks for informing me. Things can certainly change in . . . Wow! has it been 14 years?! I am getting old fast!