Sprucing up titanium slabs?

What does "Sprucing Up" mean exactly? Do you want it bead blasted, antiqued, polished, stone washed?
Post some pics, let's see what you are working with.
 
want to do it yourself? or have it done. if you dont have tools the easiest thing would be to get hand files and sand paper and go wild. or if you have a compressor and a cheap little bead blaster do a nice blast on it. (dont blast the contact surfaces though)
 
I've always liked smooth ti on the side of the knife that rubs the pocket, on pocket clip equipped knives I mean. That is what makes them among the kindest to pockets IMO. With that said though I do like having a bit of a grip or texture about where I place my thumb when I'm trying to pull my knife out to use it, so on some of my own I've placed a small textured overscale of G10 or leather I impregnated with grip texture. This gives your thumb a bit better purchase of the handle to pull it out and it also aids in grip when using the knife some too so I've had some success just doing something simple like that. (see pic of two of my He-Man model knives closed) Then you could just get a die cutter and a dremmel and go to town on it. That can make them look pretty good and so can a small wheel attachment, a fine grained new belt and some free hand art work done on a grinder for that matter. See the little southpaw folder I did for my friend Jon years back.

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Thanks Steve! That's what I'm talking about on the open knife, nice.
The overlayed knives look very sophisticated. How did you treat the clip side?
 
gull wing said:
Thanks Steve! That's what I'm talking about on the open knife, nice.
The overlayed knives look very sophisticated. How did you treat the clip side?
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Clip side on both those was the smooth slab with bead blasted surface. As I said I find I like the smooth on one side for a longer lasting pocket but honestly letting yourself go with a bit of artistic license free hand using a 1/2" wheel on the grinder can produce some good looks. It helps if you play with some scrap first to get your groove down before going after the real deal. Once you've felt it out some and get comfortable with the scrap you can do that to about any frame lock and I've done a lot of the Lava and other models built like that also. I don't take those jobs now but in the past I did quite a few there for a time. Depending on how you want it you can actually line those grind lines up pretty good if you take some time to map out how you want to come in on each grind. I tend to like the more random looking ones myself but precise looks nice too.
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