Titanium for liner

medtech

medtech

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I'm wanting to use titanium .04 thick for a liner on a folding knife (locking liner)how will be the best way to cut this? Does anyone have a good idea? Thanks for the help

Steve
 
Something that thin a good 14 tooth per inch or more band saw blade on a wood cutting band saw would zip through it no problem at all even at the high speeds they move at. In fact in thinner stock like that I prefer running the saw faster personally. I actually feel like I have more control over the piece as it just goes through it like butter. Slower seemed to want to hang it up more to me. I know several makers that use higher speed saws for cutting their thinner stock titanium, sheet metal and aluminum. I'm one of them.

STR
 
You can also lightly glue (drop of CA on the leading and trailing edges) on some sacrificial stock like thin MDF to keep the blade from tearing the Ti.
 
medtech said:
Thanks for the quick reply. John what are you using instead?
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I guess what I should have added was I don't make many linerlocks anymore since my main focus is frontier style knives and sheaths. On the rare occasion that I do make one, I still use.50 titanium.
 
John M Cohea said:
I guess what I should have added was I don't make many linerlocks anymore since my main focus is frontier style knives and sheaths. On the rare occasion that I do make one, I still use.50 titanium.
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.50?!?!?:eek: I'm guessing you mean .050 :D
 
I use an old worn out blade on my bandsaw, running as fast as I can make it run.
(Fast, wood cutting speeds)
Friction cutting thin Ti is the way to go.
With coarse toothed wood blades, flip 'em inside out so that your actually using the backside of the teeth instead of the side God intended.
Folks never believe it, but it'll cut like a dream on all the way up to 5/32" stock for me.
You gotta grind some slag off when you're done but so what?
 
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