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Paul comes from a long line of metalworkers going back "hundreds of years".

From BBC • Dec. 6, 2025

Industries of textiles, or metalworkers making nails and scythes, were shaped like "factories without machines spread out over hundreds of households" according to Shaw-Taylor -- and increasingly produced goods for international markets.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2024

The Iron Monkey metalworkers are known for the multistory apparitions they conjure every year, haul to Burning Man and set on fire.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2024

Last week, some 50 metalworkers at a factory that produces aluminum parts for Tesla’s factory in Germany walked off the job.

From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2023

Because pure gold and silver are too soft to hold their shape, Andean metalworkers mixed them with other metals, usually copper.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann