Anodizing Titanium

sociallyautistic

sociallyautistic

Joined
Feb 5, 2007
Messages
23
I have two Sebenzas, one large and one small. I'm wondering if anyone has anodized the scales blue - I think it would look pretty cool since the thumbstud is blue. If so, is this something I could do, or is there a place that I could send the knife to have it done? Any thoughts? Thanks!
 
you could probably do it yourself, two 9 volt batteries and some diet coke. There has been a couple of good annodizing tutorials posted, try and search in toolshed forum.
 
I have anodized the pocket clips of Sebbies blue for forum members on several occasions. I don't imagine doing the whole body would be any more difficult other than taking it apart first. Due to whatever mix of blasting media Chris uses the blue comes out pretty dark on Sebbies compared to ones I blast with my bead blaster and do at the same voltage. He must be using a ceramic bead mix of his own or something. On my own after bead blasting the colors are a bit more vivid. What I'm saying is that rebead blasting it may make it a more bright blue for you because anodizing it as is it will be kind of a dull dark blue.

STR
 
Welcome to Bladeforums!

moving-van.jpg
 
There is more than one way to color titanium, depending on the effect you want.
Now since you want to anodize two fairly costly knives , and if you are going to do it yourself I would prepare myself for possible disappointment , the nice thing is you can always redo it until you get the effect you want.

I have colored titanium with heat , if you search you will find a thread I started about heat coloring a CRKT Viele , the turnout was a beautiful blue. I have trired the battery method and it works ok but to be honest it is a PITA and can get messy and frustrating until you get it right , heat coloring is far easier.

A forum member ( I cannot recall who ) colored his knife by wrapping the handle strategically with tight rubber bands and then soaking in a solution of Oxyclean and boiling water , search and you can find that thread , the results were a neat looking 'tiger stripe camo' look.

Be aware that of course you need to completely disassemble the knife to do any sort of coloring.
 
I saw that oxi-clean thread too. I tried it. I took my titianium neck knife and threw it in Hot water/overdosed with oxi-clean. It works to a point.

It gives a nice purple-blue patina to the TI. It is not very deep in color, but looks pretty good.
If the TI is too smooth it doesn't work, I had to scotch-brite mine for it to take.

I don't personally think it would look very good on the handle of a folder (esp a Seb.) just because it isn't a very consistant finish.
 
Boker knife company has some culinary knives with Titanium blades. There is one in their line that has some type of Titanium type coating on it that looks almost similar to what galvanizing looks like on steel but it was multi-colored blue and looked really neat.

I am wondering if any of you know what type of coating that was that Boker used on their Titanium bladed kitchen knife?
 
Gas bluing as i firearms is coing back. I don't if they hot bmuing, its very time and people to get it perfect.
Please remember this conversation if you find so. E genuine hot blue steel!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top