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06-26-2009, 09:33 AM #1Senior Member
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Titanium?
Simple question, titanium? I know fighter airplanes are made from it, I even have a road bike, the frame is made out of it. Razors? Anybody knows, I am no metallurgist, hec I don't even know how to spell it. Do they make razors out of this metal? Juan.
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06-26-2009, 09:40 AM #2< Banned User >
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Titanium is strong, lightweight, and durable but it can not be heat hardened and is only about a 45 on the Rockwell C scale. It is too soft for any type of blade but makes good handles.
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06-26-2009, 09:44 AM #3Senior Member
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go to sleep
What are you doing up at this hour, you and I should be in bed by this time. Juan.
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06-26-2009, 01:13 PM #4Shvaing nut
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Anything at all to make a buck, does not mean that Enigizer corp's Shick Quatro Titanium and Enigizer Shick Quatro Titanium Trimmer have any of the stuff in it, personally I think its all plastic.
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06-26-2009, 07:11 PM #5"My words are of iron..."
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Eh? MissionKnives.com, The Toughest Knives in the World! and root around a little.
Originally Posted by John Crowley
Comparing a Rockwell value between steel and a titanium blade is a real apples vs. oranges problem. The titanium is much more abrasion resistant than steel so the comparison of hardness values does little to determine how well, or how long they will cut. Titanium is capable of heat treatment. A very tough knife, but true, probably not a very good razor.
The titanium coatings used on cutting tools is a deposition layer of titanium nitride or carbide, sometimes even boron. Rc 80, very hard stuff, not just plastics.“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power.” R.G.Ingersoll
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06-26-2009, 10:50 PM #6
I guess when you see Titanium in all those pretty colors that's the result of heat treatment.
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06-27-2009, 01:52 PM #7"My words are of iron..."
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Color oxides will form with heating, but for the most part, those colors are formed as a result of an electrolyte bath (even coca cola) and electric current. The colors result from varying the voltage and the equipment is really kind of easy to build at home. Originally Posted by thebigspendur
I can't beat the old saw that a picture is worth lots of words. The following is Randy McDaniel, a hellofa blacksmith.
YouTube - Blacksmith Forged Titanium Knife
and, (titanium anodizing)
YouTube - Anodizing Titanium
And then to run this subject out into the fringes, Tom Ferry, Oregon/WA, has made a pattern welded titanium material (timascus). That gets really interesting since the welding temperatures are critical and it has to be done in the absence of oxygen. Think of a magnesium fire on steroids.
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