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Tungsten's highest melting point is 6,192 degF. Just heating it up in a normal forge, as I've seen people try, probably doesn't get it hot enough. I'm sure people have tried getting it close to the meting point and tried, but have yet to see reports of it. Does anyone have a data source describing the various attempts at forging tungsten or tungsten carbide? I would think that maybe running electric current through let's say a bar of it getting it close to the melting point might work, if one wants to try the Neanderthal method to try to forge it, then whacking it with a hammer. The technology which should be developed in all cases when it come to creation of physical structures is atom by atom 3D printers that can print out any atom and place any where one wants to and the structures for 'Grown' in a computer to allow for the strongest shape of the object using the least amount of material. Forged tungsten carbide using the least amount of material could replace titanium in aircraft and also be non-ferromagnetic (Stealth aircraft etc).