Hey what's up guys, so I have an issue with anodizing some titanium scales. A buddy of mine gave me his knife and wanted his scales anodized. It's a Kershaw cryo 1555ti, at first I thought the scales were just sandblasted, which gave it the dark grey appearance. So I prepped the scales by cleaning all the oil off them and proceeded to anodize them and nothing happened for the obvious reason that the scales are coated with a matte grey carbo-nitride. So then I tried getting that coating off by boiling up some multi etch and that had no effect. So next best thing, I took the torch to the scales and I saw the coating fade away and I ended up with discoloration, and then I dunked them into the multi etch again which cleaned them right up and proceeded to anodize again, which I'm sure would've worked but still no dice..... did I possibly contaminate my anodizing bath water with the first attempt? Or did I harden the Titanium with the torch and for that reason they won't anodize?? I'm really baffled by this.. any help I'd much appreciate it! Thanks!
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Problem anodizing
- Thread starter mudtracks
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The knife is not titanium... its coated in titanium nitride! You can't anodize that. You're just heating up steel.
