I was a little timid about polishing the titanium handles on my 42 becuase I had never worked with ti before. The stuff polishes up real nice real quick. I had a mirror polish in a matter of minutes. Now that I have a mirror polish it is my nature to not be satisfied with a good thing, so I want to bring out some color in this baby. I would like to hear from poeple that have expirimented with putting color in the handles by heat (oxidation) I think. Do I have to worry about melting ti? Does heating ti make it weaker? Propane torch? Oxogen and Acetalyne torch?
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I think I am either the only one or the first one to thermally oxidize (color) the handles of the BM42. Email me with any questions you might have - I will be happy to answer them. And yes Ti. is quite easy to polish and hard to mess up on (because of its hardness).
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Well, I tried it before you with a butane lighter and it worked, but did not produce a very deep finish so it rubbed of fairly quickly.
The biggest trick is that you must clean the surface throughly before you begin.
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Chuck
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The biggest trick is that you must clean the surface throughly before you begin.
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Chuck
Balisongs -- because it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing!
http://www.balisongcollector.com
Chuck just give me this one ... PLEASE?
You have every knife in the world ... can I just take credit for this one???
lol
Don't worry you wont melt the Ti. If you want I can get you the characteristics of it for you but - if you just use a propane torch you will be fine.
Let me know what you do-
mmtmatrix
You have every knife in the world ... can I just take credit for this one???
Don't worry you wont melt the Ti. If you want I can get you the characteristics of it for you but - if you just use a propane torch you will be fine.
Let me know what you do-
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Is there a possiblity of totally screwing up my 42 if I take a propane torch to it??
I don't want to damage the Ti, the pins (are the pins Ti?), or the blade (the flame won't come close to the blade though). Will the pins get screwed up if the torch goes over them or is held over them for a period of time??
mmtmatrix: do you know how long I should hold the flame to the handles to get a blood red (or a rich, fairly deep red)??
Thanks!
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Cameron
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I don't want to damage the Ti, the pins (are the pins Ti?), or the blade (the flame won't come close to the blade though). Will the pins get screwed up if the torch goes over them or is held over them for a period of time??
mmtmatrix: do you know how long I should hold the flame to the handles to get a blood red (or a rich, fairly deep red)??
Thanks!
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Cameron
"It takes a killer...to stop a killer"
A few of my balisongs
My Photopoint album
...Humm... a dark blood red...
That might be a bit hard was there a particular color (on my pic that you were thinking of?) I posted the colors that I got (same as in email I sent you cam)-you can see a list of colors there (and the different times)
http://www.bladeforums.com/ubb/Forum47/HTML/000721.html
Yeh a blood red would be tricky ... You could get a nice maroon red type color (its next to the gold and comes after gold) You could also (as I was telling you) get a reddish pinkish/orange color but this was very hard to achieve and required a lot of time and heat (it was not the brightest or most prominent color either)
Let me know what you do-
mmtmatrix
That might be a bit hard was there a particular color (on my pic that you were thinking of?) I posted the colors that I got (same as in email I sent you cam)-you can see a list of colors there (and the different times)
http://www.bladeforums.com/ubb/Forum47/HTML/000721.html
Yeh a blood red would be tricky ... You could get a nice maroon red type color (its next to the gold and comes after gold) You could also (as I was telling you) get a reddish pinkish/orange color but this was very hard to achieve and required a lot of time and heat (it was not the brightest or most prominent color either)
Let me know what you do-
mmtmatrix
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Mr. mmtmatrix, I gotta give it to you. I might have fiddled around with a lighter, but you were the first to really go at it seriously and really produce a nice result. Edison did not invent the lightbulb (true fact), but he was the first to really go at it seriously. So, you are the Edison of thermal oxidization. And, I gotta say, it turned out really well.
Now, I hear a lot of people saying "I don't want to risk my knife by trying something..." Well, folks, you gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet. In Columbus's day, there were probably a lot of guys who said, "I don't want to risk my nice new boat by sailing out to far." History does not record their names.
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Chuck
Balisongs -- because it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing!
http://www.balisongcollector.com
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Now, I hear a lot of people saying "I don't want to risk my knife by trying something..." Well, folks, you gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet. In Columbus's day, there were probably a lot of guys who said, "I don't want to risk my nice new boat by sailing out to far." History does not record their names.
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Chuck
Balisongs -- because it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing!
http://www.balisongcollector.com
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Chuck: if I did try to oxidize my 42 and I screwed up or something went horribly wrong, my parents would just say: "Live and learn" or "Well that must suck" and they wouldn't let me buy another (if the 42 got that screwed up) so I want to be as careful as possible.
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Cameron
"It takes a killer...to stop a killer"
A few of my balisongs
My Photopoint album
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Cameron
"It takes a killer...to stop a killer"
A few of my balisongs
My Photopoint album
Thanks Chuck--You are the man!!!!!
I really can't wait to see how peoples compare to what I did! I want to see what people come up with. --yep sometimes you have to just go for it and take a risk--
Thanks-
mmtmatrix
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I really can't wait to see how peoples compare to what I did! I want to see what people come up with. --yep sometimes you have to just go for it and take a risk--
Thanks-
mmtmatrix
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