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Hi guys,
I wanted you C&H folks to see this. It's a titanium knife made from a piece of an SR-71 Blackbird that crashed long ago. The aircraft hit the ground in a dive nose-first and vaporized into titanium corn flakes, but I ended up with a few pieces big enough to fashion into blades. More info in the Mad Science Forge subforum, here and here.
The ti alloy is of the type I call "over-alloyed titanium," and doesn't harden up like the stuff I normally use for swords and knives, so it's sort of like a space-age bronze knife, but springy. The bolt handle ornament is also from the SR-71 pieces, and the lanyard hole is a rivet hole. Pics of the scrap being turned into the knife are in the links above.
What a pleasure to make use of such an amazing piece of aerospace history, and turn it into something for the world of blades.
I wanted you C&H folks to see this. It's a titanium knife made from a piece of an SR-71 Blackbird that crashed long ago. The aircraft hit the ground in a dive nose-first and vaporized into titanium corn flakes, but I ended up with a few pieces big enough to fashion into blades. More info in the Mad Science Forge subforum, here and here.
The ti alloy is of the type I call "over-alloyed titanium," and doesn't harden up like the stuff I normally use for swords and knives, so it's sort of like a space-age bronze knife, but springy. The bolt handle ornament is also from the SR-71 pieces, and the lanyard hole is a rivet hole. Pics of the scrap being turned into the knife are in the links above.
What a pleasure to make use of such an amazing piece of aerospace history, and turn it into something for the world of blades.
