Can Titainium be anodized red like aluminum?

[Hoplophile]

I realize the 2 processes are different for the 2 metals, but I don't recall having ever seen red Ti. Is this possible?

 

[tom mayo]

I dont know for sure.....but I think you can get any color out of ti. All depends on the range of your power input and what solution you are using.

 

[Architect]

Look at Chris Reeve Knives (www.chrisreeve.com)

They have come up with some pretty amazing Ti colors for their unique graphics series of Sebenza's. Perhaps a call to their shop might get you pointed in the right direction.

 

[Peter Atwood]

No. Titanium will not anodize red. Tom Anderson has posted a list on Knifeforums.com that gives the voltages and corresponding colors. As far as I know, the closest you could get to pure red would be a pink color at about 100 volts or so. That number may not be correct but it is close.

 

[Alan Folts]

About the closest you can get to a red with electrical anodization is a fuscia color... Titanium oxide layers will not reflect the color red. Funny part is that the color is not really there, the oxide layer just reflects a certain color at a given thickness, thus the color we see, but it will not reflect a red color. It will reflect most other colors, but some are harder than others to control and to acheive, i have a very hard time getting a bright vibrant green on my set up but can hit most any other color or shade pretty regularly...

let me know if you need any help on a given color except for red.

aluminum is so much easier, it can take any color that you can make dye in, thus it isnt determined by the metal, but by a different product to get the color...

Alan Folts

 

[JohnF]

Alan, slightly off topic but I love your signature tag about a man talking in the forest. I shared it with a bunch of old married guys at work and it was knee slapping time . Made everyone's day. Thank's!
John.