Thread: Full Double Hollow dressed in unobtainium :<0)

looking good Pups great read along
look forward to the rest of this series.

is it some sort of a Damascus or Mokume-gane, made from titanium mixed with spent fuel rods from a certain Flux Capacitor, forged with the hell fires in the core of Orodruin???
just a guess?

I was up 'till 1:30 last night finishing this post and got up for work 2 hours later . That's how I got so far along Mike :<0) I started working it and couldn't put it down. I don't know if it was the learning or the beauty of the material. I love metal and never had a chance to play with Titanium before.

Off hand Shaun I don't know if .100 would bend any less than .050. I would guess, not much.

I was trying to remember to take pics during all this but I swear I just couldn't think of anything but " what next. try this , do that and see.

I did have the thought several times that I would be doing you guys a better service if I learned more about it before I started babbling on with each new surprise. What I will probably do is cut some pieces with the video running and show you some things I did discover. I had read a lot about this stuff while waiting for it to arrive and more after I got it. For all intents and purposes most of what I read was correct but the thickness I used and some of the tools I tried I hadn't seen in my quest for knowledge. What I watched and read was all bigger material and machine work. Which would be a lot easier and costly for sure. For our use of course there will be some experimenting. Unless you have a liquid cooling system set up for your Dremmel :<0)

Nap time, but I hope I have the energy to play some more tonight. I have to at least clean up my mess from yesterday so I will be very near the temptation.

Originally Posted by Substance

looking good Pups great read along
look forward to the rest of this series.

is it some sort of a Damascus or Mokume-gane, made from titanium mixed with spent fuel rods from a certain Flux Capacitor, forged with the hell fires in the core of Orodruin???
just a guess?

No but the same guy that makes that is selling it :<0) He calls this stuff METI-TI-.050 6al-4v So far it's not glowing in the dark but if I find a way to make it do that I will send it ALL to you :<0)

10Pups it looks awesome! I need to get up there and spend a couple hours with you guys again. I learned a lot.

Somebody was hinting at a meet not long ago :<0) Soon I thought

Nice work! Good job sticking with it, I might have given up after rounding off some teeth

Lol, 6al-4v Ti is pretty tough, but it sounds like you're making the job even harder on yourself by not slowing your tools down a bit. The belt speeds for sanders and RPM for drills as well as reciprocating speeds for saws all need to be dropped a fair bit or you will definitely destroy your cutting edges and abrasives. It is very tough stuff to work if you don't have variable speeds.

Looking good.
It can be anodized too if you feel like it. The color choices are plenty.
For me the dream scales would be made from Timascus, but that stuff is crazy expensive.

Originally Posted by eKretz

Lol, 6al-4v Ti is pretty tough, but it sounds like you're making the job even harder on yourself by not slowing your tools down a bit. The belt speeds for sanders and RPM for drills as well as reciprocating speeds for saws all need to be dropped a fair bit or you will definitely destroy your cutting edges and abrasives. It is very tough stuff to work if you don't have variable speeds.

All this I have found out :<0) The only thing I have to cut it with is fiber discs for Dremmel and a 4 1/2 " grinder. For drilling I have the drill press set on the lowest it will go and use titanium drill bits.( No problem there) And yes the stuff is hard on grinder belts. Another thing I learned is the sparks are hotter than 'H" and will ignite any ordinary waste left under your grinder. If you use a dust collector on your grinder make sure you clean it before grinding too much Ti or you will have a fire. I am hoping to show some of this in a vid soon. Just been sick as a dog the last couple weeks and feeling about as strong as a 6 year old school girl.
Lots of advice out there on saw blades but like you say , from what I read, it's all about slow and push it through.

Originally Posted by mainaman

Looking good.
It can be anodized too if you feel like it. The color choices are plenty.
For me the dream scales would be made from Timascus, but that stuff is crazy expensive.

Yes heating titanium can be fun and dangerous. Titanium's melting point is 3,034°F (1,668°C) BUT at that temp it does not melt it burns unless there is no oxygen or nitrogen in the atmosphere. Maybe why Timascus is so expensive and hard to get. I played with the torch method some but I am not crazy about the results. There is no color chart for titanium relative to temperature. At least I have yet to find one. I am going to color these pieces in the oven and see if I can get a nice blue. I did see a partial picture of a chart at a place that does anodizing and may get the blue I want at around 1200°F. More experiments to come as soon as I get time.

Sanding/polishing is a chore in itself. The material I got has a pattern of little scratch marks on the surface and I played with greaseless some and polishing compounds on the buffers. I still have some scratch lines to take out that normally would have been gone on any other metal I have used.

1 more little fact... It is non magnetic.

I will try to get back to working with it soon and document things on video as I progress.