Help with titanium

Well thank you everyone for the suggestions, this forum is really the most helpful one I have been on for anything. This is a great community.

6000 fpm is really fast. According to my math, my bandsaw should be running at about 2000-2500. It does have all of the guides, but like I said, it wouldn't cut the titanium unless I pushed very hard, and at that point I think it was mostly melting, not cutting.

I think what I'm going to wind up doing is getting some bimetal hacksaw blades and doing it by hand.

I actually found a decently priced milling machine on craigslist, and I've been wanting one for a bunch of different things I want to do. Anyone see any reason why that wouldn't work? I feel like it might be more worth it to get the milling machine than a new bandsaw if I could use it for so many more things.
 
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I managed to get some rough cuts out with my jigsaw, and only used two blades :dispirited:

And it is quite slow going on my grinder. The stuff gets super hot super fast. I know I don't need to be as concerned about getting it hot as I would with steel, but I do need to hold onto it.

I think my conclusion is that titanium is more trouble than it's worth until I can afford the quality tools I want. Namely I want a bandsaw I can set up for wood or metal. Or maybe just a quality wood bandsaw that I could do that friction cutting with.

Any advice about that milling machine is still welcome though. I was thinking I might be able to do decent profiling with an end mill, but the motor is only 1/3 hp, is that enough to be doing steels and other tough metals?
 
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