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submit other answers - - : : well, yes, but you're going to have to decide if it's worth the effort for you. when you say tungsten carbide, i think you mean tungsten carbide (wc). pure tungsten carbide is an intermetallic, so doesn't have the soft, tough properties of a metal - it is halfway to a ceramic
start with powdered metals, press, then sinter, the extrude, all at very high temperatures. pure tungsten for light bulb filaments had a similar problem. the early researchers had to form tungsten filaments by the casting method mentioned above, because they didn't understand why the pure tungsten metal...
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