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

Originally Posted by 10Pups

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Now I know some may be thinking " why would he put metal on a covered tang ??? " This material has a secret property that will change all that soon enough. I will do a video on that process. It's going to be fun and who knows how it will turn out?
Thanks for looking , I'll be Back.

I await your additional info. Titanium did you say?? Oooh pretty!
~Richard

I can't believe how much progress you've made Pups...when I left yesterday you had just finished the rough cut on the one scale. I won't give away the "secret"...

Great job my friend!

Makes me think of some heat treated aluminum sheets... Might not be as expensive, and if done right can be purdy darn tough...

I refuse to believe that the scales will not be lit up with color...somehow.

Awesome job on those scales and that razor!
Thank you showing the progress and the "heads up" on that material too......
The unknown and the gamble paid of using that material for those scales.
Magnificent job!

As the old saying goes "Nothing ventured, nothing gained."

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 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.

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?