Titanium Handle

Knife Outlet said:
The advantage of titanium is light weight. For me it is a real advantage. I don't like heavy folders at all. If you feel the same, then a titanium handle is a great solution.
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The Ti handled versions of all the knives that I own are actually heavier than their Non-Ti versions. For example, the Ti Military weigh about 1.6 oz more than its G10 counterpart. The Large Sebenza 21 has no Non-Ti counterpart, but, at 4.8 oz, I consider it a heavy knife for its blade and handle size.
 
Ti handle is heavier then g-10 or micarta , BUT Ti-handle means TI-Frame lock and this is big plus .
 
Knife Outlet said:
The advantage of titanium is light weight. For me it is a real advantage. I don't like heavy folders at all. If you feel the same, then a titanium handle is a great solution.
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Titanium isnt light at all. To use it on knives, you need fairly large slabs and this makes it quite heavy. A sebenza weight more than a lot of knives with similar size and different materials including steel liners. Titanium is less dense than steel, but thats about it
 
As for grip, I only have found that Stainless polished knives to be slippery. Ti handled blades are usually bead blasted which provides some grip. Unless you plan on doing a lot of stabbing, I think you will find the grip fine. Remember also, high grip knives tend to rip up pants as well.

I have always found grip to be overrated. It may be more useful on a tactical knife, but still, if the ergs are good it will be fine. I have owned many knives with not such high grip and have never slipped
 
trix2004 said:
Ti handle is heavier then g-10 or micarta , BUT Ti-handle means TI-Frame lock and this is big plus .
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I like Ti frame locks, and I believe they have some advantages. On the other hand, weight is a objective fact that can be confirmed by anyone with a scale in an instant.
 
Here are my framelock Ti's - my pride and joy! I luckily have a second 'blemished' JYDII as an EDC. Great knife! Not shown is my worst Ti knife - a Buck XLT560, basically a 110 blade in a Ti lockback handle.

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Here is a picture with the Buck 560 Ti:

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It is riveted together - including the pivot. I don't know if mine is too tight from the rivet - or it's the galling of the Ti, but mine is stiff to open/close - certainly not like any other 110 I've seen. It was cheap - especially compared with the 172 Mayo 'TNT', which. like it's sibling, the #171 Mayo Waimea, was dropped this year. The Mayo's are nice - Santa was lucky this Christmas - found a deal!

I guess the only currently available Ti framelocks like I have that can still be bought new is the Benchmade 760BK LTi, with it's M4 blade (Second from left above - second from right top.) Great knife! None of mine feel 'slick' - they are all nice, comfortable, and secure 'grabs' . Thumb jimping on the B-M's blades; on the Kershaw's frame; and missing from the Bucks.

Stainz
 
Massive cool collection Stainz!! :thumbup:

Thanks for sharing, my mouth is watering. Wouldn't you know, I want all the ones that aren't available the most! :D
 
i find that the TI handles on my sebenza are nice, they are not slick by any means, as others have said a well designed handle helps, but if you think that the knife will fall out of your hand or something i doubt it will, unless you drop it :eek:
 
Those are some nice knives, I've only held the mini skirmish, it felt like a really nice, tank like knife.

Thanks everyone, you reassured me that Ti handles are not going to be slippery, and a bad purchase, plus with a framelock as many have, I can't go wrong.
 
I love titanium. You know why?

I have a BM 42 balisong. It fell out of my pocket the other day and landed in the driveway. My first thought was, "crap I scratched my knife!" turns out it was the other way around, the titanium handle actually gouged a chunk out of the pavement. so yeah, titanium is as tough as it gets.
 
so I was reading some stuff, and well I'm not sure how scientific it was, but it basically saying that titanium is more brittle than steel, so if your BM42 was made of steel, it would still take a chunk out of the pavement, but if you kept dropping the steel and the Ti handled BM42 over and over, the Ti would break first?

Was just wondering

But that is reassuring Uz4u
 
gwlee said:
The Ti handled versions of all the knives that I own are actually heavier than their Non-Ti versions. For example, the Ti Military weigh about 1.6 oz more than its G10 counterpart. The Large Sebenza 21 has no Non-Ti counterpart, but, at 4.8 oz, I consider it a heavy knife for its blade and handle size.
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Depends on the comparison. I'm comparing to a steel handle.
 
Nothing gonna happen to Titanium if you drop it exept for scratches and dents, its softer then steel .


JCK said:
so I was reading some stuff, and well I'm not sure how scientific it was, but it basically saying that titanium is more brittle than steel, so if your BM42 was made of steel, it would still take a chunk out of the pavement, but if you kept dropping the steel and the Ti handled BM42 over and over, the Ti would break first?

Was just wondering

But that is reassuring Uz4u
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The only knife i own with titanium handles is this small one:
Benchmade Nagara 10700

See a review here:
http://www.kniveswebsite.com/?p=17

Titanium is great, it is very strong, light, corrosion free, and will last forever.
And needs hardly any maintenance to keep it in shape.
But i also find the shape of the handle is more important then the texture.
Jimping is nice, but the shape of the handle should prevent that
your hand can slide to the blade at any action.
surely with heavy tactical knives etc.

Tuatara
 
Thalestin said:
Titanium isnt light at all. To use it on knives, you need fairly large slabs and this makes it quite heavy. A sebenza weight more than a lot of knives with similar size and different materials including steel liners. Titanium is less dense than steel, but thats about it
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Actually it is lighter than steel and thats what we are talking about I think.

For example a 12" long 1" diameter round bar of stainless steel weighs 2.67 lbs
A 12" long 1" diameter titanium round bar weighs 1.54 lbs.

Following that same line of thinking a .150 thickness titanium frame lock with a 5" handle will be significantly lighter than an identical stainless frame lock with a 5" handle. Lighter weight is an advantage to titanium among many other advantages which is why they like making things like the space shuttle out of ti vs stainless. It means less fuel to get it off the ground and into space and it of course will hold up better to extremes of temperature and variations from one end to the other than steel. Looking at the above ratio for stainless vs titanium, if you take two identical pieces of sheet or round bar or nuggets or space shuttle of ti and stainless, stainless will out weigh titanium by nearly 1.75 x. So in something like the space shuttle, lets say in titanium it would weigh 40,000 pounds, then a same size space shuttle in stainless would be approximately 70,000 pounds plus or minus.

STR
 
I have a Nagara too, love it. Like a little tank with a needle tip and a razor sharp blade. It weighs more tham my BM 940's though! I don't know why they didn't drill out something? :confused:

The Nak Lok is just a button that depresses a linerlock. I haven't been edc'ing it but I'm keeping it though.

EDC chores go to the RAT Izula and a BM 710 in this cold weather in my right front jacket pocket. The pocket buttons right over the clip and it slips right out if needed. When the jacket comes off, then the Izula is there! :D
 
I love my Titanium Military with a passion. I posted a couple pictures of it here but it was 4000X3000 :O

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