Heating Titanium

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lagriffe

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Would heating the titanium liners of the karambit weaken or make brittle the metal? I've seen some knives with interesting color patterns resulting from heat treating. Any downside?
 
i dont THINK it will, maybe someone who KNOWS will pop in, but i dont see any probs myself.

i like the way strider flames there ti, i have often thought of getting the ti side of my '12 flamed ala strider.
 
Might want to post this question in the knifemaker's section as well, they're the one who'd know from experience.
 
Heating Ti basically does nothing to the actual structure of the metal. It dosnt behave the same way as steel so dosnt harden or temper with heat.

You do get some cool colours though :D:thumbup:
 
Heating Ti does have an effect on the mechanical properties but for the sake of argument and for the uses involved here the effect will be neglagible In that you would never notice the differance it actually made.

Heat colouring Ti would have so little effect its not worth concerning your self about.
It also depends on the grade of titanium but the Ti used for knife making is usually of a high grade.

In theory heating could result is a loss of hardness / strength and an increase in ductility / impact or result in a decrease in strength / hardness and an increase in ductility.
This depends more on the procceses you go through and at what temperature you treat it at, as well as what state its at to begine with more than the actual metals composition.

This quickly gets rather complicated but if you really want to know whats going on "in side" you can find out with a quick web search although if you are not familiour with the terminolagy you might get a bit lost with some of the processes.

It confused the hell out of me at first when I was at Uni, thats for sure :D:thumbup:
 
Do not heat the area where the detent ball is in the lock! You willl likely lose the creamic ball if you heat this area.
 
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