Mechaxe: titanium alloy axe

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This is laughable. Is this a first hand experience of yours or just an opinion you heard?
The usual opinion is that Titanium is strong but soft, making it useless for a blade. But even this has been proved not true, thanks to Mecha.

 

Experience. All titanium things I own scrathes fairly easy and can bend more than the knife and tool alloys I have.

 

So because it's scratches easy means it's not strong. I fail to see the logic here, sorry.
For scratches Ti needs to be harder then the material you try to scratch it with. That's why i put that Ti is usually known to be soft = scratches easy.
For the bending, maybe you should try a proper Ti alloy with a proper heat treatment and give it a try again.

There is not just Titanium, as there is not just Steel. It depends on which Ti alloy you talk of and the heat treatment/refinement it has gone through. You probably only know like 6AL4V with no treatment at all. That's like a cheap unhardened steel.

Have you ever heard of Mission Knives?
http://www.missionknives.com/index.php/why-titanium

 

not with a Mecha made one.

I've beat the crap out of my mecha made titanium machete, even posted some pics here showing it, and it keeps the edge and doesnt deform or chip. before passing judgement on all titanium alloys, maybe try one made properly as a cutting/chopping tool.

 

^damn right.....this monkey also smokes cigars sometimes when using my #5 mecha machete....terrible habit need to quit....also need to sweep and pressure wash my back porch...

 

naw. work with a bunch of Cubans fresh off the boat and they go home sometimes and bring me back smokes. sometimes real ones sometimes fakes but I like 'em all long as they arent floor sweepings tobacco with hair, sand, scabs and boogers and such in them.

 

A little late to the party but here is my 2 cents. A few months back I had the honor of owning one of Mecha's machetes. That thing is light but cuts deep and does not deform or bend when used on branches. Zero arm fatigue. One of my friends has 'borrowed' it for now. See more of Mecha's cutting videos. Maybe you will change your mind

 

That's my dream axe right there!