eli5 How were such intricate items like suits or armour and castle decorations made in the medieval era when they lacked advanced metal processing and precision tools we have today
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Practise, a lot of practise. Collective Generations worth infact.
Back then you wouldn’t just become a blacksmith, you were apprenticed to one at a very young age, and in time, of a couple of decades at least if you were skilled and successful, you’d become a blacksmith. The blacksmith who you were apprenticing under went through the same thing as you, as did his master, and his master before him spanning back centuries. The skilled and the successful ones are those who went on to teach and get a long line of successors.
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