Look, I'm not gonna argue whatsoever that Bronze/Brass isn't easy to turn and shape. It's great.
... but the slivers... OMFG, the slivers... it chips out so razor sharp that it's impossible not to get it in your skin, and it hurts like heckle!!
Steel is far more functional.
Aluminum is too soft to hold consistently over dropping and denting, and Titanium is really hard on tooling.
Some good 303 Steel is nice.
@JulieSqveakaroo we're partial to aluminum and brass personally, for conductivity reasons! Both have their problems though; aluminum forms an insulating oxide layer immediately on exposure to air, making it difficult to make good contact with, and brass has the problem all copper alloys do that alloying basically *anything* with copper makes its conductivity plummet
-F
