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I just found this on another forum.
Will anodizing a Ti blade like the Boker Zeta, reduce its edgeholding ability?
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And so, again, we see the mythical properties of the titanium edge.
 
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Sorry, pet peeve.
The thing that I don't like is that people talk about titanium's edge like they really know something. Titanium swords and knives, and how they can constantly cut rope after rope.
 
I see IG has found a new and happy home! :D :D :D Welcome big brother! :D

Hell of it is, titantium won't hold an edge worth spit; it'd be great for certain duty, but lots of cutting ain't it... People are always looking for magic, which is part of the reason custom makers have so much work I guess! :D Custom knives come closer to cutting nirvana than anything else ever has, but they're all just steel. Highly processed, perfected steel; that's the true stuff.
 
LoL.
You could do it like the romans did, and weld on an edge. Titanium is strong, lightweight, and durable, oh, what's it's melting temp? You could have a titanium knife, with a quater to half an inch of steel like o1 welded on as the edge.
 
I can TIG weld anything from the crack of dawn to a broken heart, but I am still unsuccessful in welding hardened knife steel to titanium.

I heard that one of the good points of the new Unobtanium material is that it can be welded to titanium. :dunno:
 
Speaking of unobtanium- have you heard of the people who suggest krypton for a blade. I still have yet to find out how you are going make a blade out of a gas though.
Has anyone here ever met someone who thought that unobtanium was a metal, or that krypton was a solid?
 
Isn't Mardi Meshijian (sp) laminating titanium and steel successfully? I thought he's made san mai blades with a steel core. That would only be one step from edge-welding a strip of steel to a ti backbone....

Also, hasn't Michael Walker done much the same with his "zipper" technique?
 
....s.
..s.ti.
s.ti.ti.
s.ti.ti.
s.ti.ti.
Handle
Handle
Handle

s.= steel
ti.= titanium

Fitz, is a zipper weld where you make little ravine kind of deal in the dege, and then close it together on another peice of metal. Or is it just a scarf weld with lots of scarfs.
 
I tried unsuccessfully to find a link, sorry. The name pretty much decribes it. The "female" portion of the joinery looks like the oldtime "keyhole" and the mating portion looks like a tootsie-pop. It was way cool and I believe he got a patent for the technique.
 
He gave us the detente ball and modern refinement of the linerlock for free. His wife set a new direction with her early titanium anodizing and anodized engraving.

Michael Walker deserved to keep this one for himself! ;) :)

If i can find a pic I'll post it. You'd enjoy seeing it. I can still remember my jaw dropping the first time!
 
Kit Carson said:
I've been looking at a new steel.....Unobtanium U/No-C. :rofl:
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Or the highly secret process blade material that never needs sharpening, and is extremely expensive. Of course, it's only available through me.
It's called "unbelievium".;) :D
 
Jeez Mike, that's amazing! Wow!
How did he get the blade to color like that too?
That design is... jeez... uhhh... WOW!
Thanks aton!
 
Unbelievium (Or Hully Shitium)
Mh
Atomic#: 200,000,000
Reactivity: godly
Edge Holding Ability: Samurai Strength
Largest known Cut: through a 1'r concreat pillar
Obtainablity: D&D or GURPS
 
peter ryt said:
Jeez Mike, that's amazing! Wow!
How did he get the blade to color like that too?
That design is... jeez... uhhh... WOW!
Thanks aton!
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YW, Payton. (Did I spell your name right, or is it with an "e"?)

The upper half of the composite blade would be titanium, I believe, and the coloring is anodizing. The flat has simply been resanded to bare metal.

At least, that's what I think I remember of the technique. I may be wrong; I'm aging and my memory doesn't always serve me as I'd prefer! :( ;)
 
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