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Steel, aluminium, carbon fiber, titanium. Occasionally wood.

They're used because:

- their material properties are acceptable - strength, stiffness, weight etc,

- their cost is acceptable

- They can be cut, shaped and joined together with decent results and acceptable effort too.

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