Soon those metals were melted and hardened into a weapon.
This was most common in the medieval era. Melted metal became more common and armor was made from them as well. These weapons include swords, two handed swords, daggers, metal-tipped spears, axes, metal bows, crossbows and bolts, mace and the lance. Of course, this era is commonly known of the knight and his armor. There were several parts to the knight’s armor.
These parts include visor, bascinet, breast plate/back plate, rerebrace, besagues, vambrace, gauntlets, faulds, cuisses, polegns, greaves, sabatons, spurs and the shield. The visor was the helm. It protected the face from deadly blows but had a downfall of vision. The bascinet was the metal under the helm keeping extra harm from blows from under the helm.
The breast/back plate was the protection for the chest and back. It was the biggest and heaviest piece of armor out of them all. It was the most important due to the size of the target. The armor usually came with besagues which are little discs at the joint of the shoulder. They didn’t do much but serve as décor and little extra protection. The rerebrace was the armor protecting the top of the shoulder until the elbow. The vambrace was the lower section of the arm.
The gauntlets were the gloves that were mainly chain due to the amount of joints. The faulds was chain that draped down from the chest (inside armor) to the middle of the thigh all around. The cuisses were protection for the top of the thighs. The polegns were made for the lower thigh to the knees. The greaves went from the knee to the ankle. The sabatons were the shoe made of metal. Along with them came the spurs which were little gear type discs that spun on the heel.
Now of course, that wasn’t enough. These knights would also have an under layer of chain everywhere except on the head. All of that armor was heavy, so more armor was created that had less protection.