The material branch is provisional. Keys and hardware may use brass, steel or other alloys; metal appearance is insufficient.
03 · MATERIALS BECOME AN OBJECT
Made, part by part.
Each material takes its own processing route before the parts are shaped, finished and assembled. Open a material branch for its documented transformations. The exact assembly sequence needs a model or manufacturer record.
Steel
Ore-based iron and recovered scrap feed steelmaking. The metal is cast, rolled and finished; the product then requires its own forming and assembly steps.