Titanium skull pendant.

Ken C.

Ken C.

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I am looking for titanium skull pendants. I have not had any luck online. Anyone have recommendations?
 
It will be a tough thing to find. Casting titanium requires a vacuum casting machine, which is pretty specialized. If titanium gets that hot without a vacuum, it's sorta like fireworks. I'm running into the issue of trying to find people to cast my stuff now. The few people that have the equipment are finding out that it pays better to do rocket parts instead. I've seen some titanium skulls from China, but they were pretty sad looking. There's plenty of the out there in silver, but it's not quite the same.

I've made wedding rings with skulls lasered on them. Nothing says til death do us part like a bunch of skulls on your wedding ring.
 
How about a flat 1 dimensional skull? Do-able?
 
Yeah, I saw those but I don't want it as a weapon. I just want the skull.
 
Hey! Start your own thread and stop hijacking mine. :rolleyes:
 
The problem is cost. I could print the master wax with a 3D printer that I have, but that part alone usually costs around $75, not including any design time or other costs. The casting in titanium usually costs somewhere in the range of $150 for a short run type of thing. Unless they are casting their wax from a silicone mold and doing multiples, cost will be up there. As I've said, I've seen some from China, who excells at that type of thing, but they weren't very well done skulls. Somewhat embarrassing looking ones that you wouldn't really want around your neck.

Here's the type of detail possible with the printer. This is cast in silver so it can be blackened in the background relief. I have seen some nice ones in silver. Some of those people should be able to have them cast in stainless, which is not as bad as casting titanium.
 

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The Raidops skull, looks like it was done on a CNC machine. I could make one on ours, but it would not be right to do that to Raidops! with the right cad program you can make a lot of cool stuff on a CNC machine.
 
If I had to guess, I would think they used either a laser or a waterjet to get the fine detail that they have. It would be tough to mill lines that fine and that deep without snapping off cutters left and right. He might even sub out the laser work to someone with the equipment. I've done that before, and similar size pieces come down to a buck or two in price when they do them in big batches. There's a company near me that has several 4000 watt lasers that does a great job with that kind of stuff. It looks like the divots are done on some sanding mandrels and the parts were tumbled to remove any sharp burrs. Darn cool design.
 
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