titanium sword as promised

wnease

wnease

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Ok, you don't need to tell me about yield strength or modulus of elasticity of 6-4 Ti ELI (or STA for that matter I love looking this stuff up and not on Yahoo answers). FWIW I now have a 6-4 Ti punch that works quite well on steel, and just for the heck of it I made a little 6-4 hacking knife quite capable of cutting threaded steel rod.

I know full well the limitations of 6-4 in a blade. However, if you were to make a 34.5 inch sword out of steel and it weighed 1 lb 2oz I doubt it would do any better than this guy:

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Now those of you who do some cutting will know that a shade over 1 lb is not enough for serious cutting fun... but it is more than enough to totally incapacitate unarmored assailants, and it makes lighter cutting tasks a blast. It can't rust and it can't be broken by hand power (at least I haven't been able to break my test pieces with hammers or hydraulics)

Too bad that much Holstex weighs over a pound too!

Other pics and video testing to come...
 
I've never seen a decent titanium sword before, would love to handle something like that sometime.

Is that a chisel grind?
 
Dude, what you did there... AWESOME!

I would really like to see some better, more detailed pictures
 
WHOOP!
Thank you William! I love it! And yes, this one is chisel ground.
Will you ship it on tuesday?
Rolf
 
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Very cool!

I bet it is fast in the hand, nice work!

Keep up the great work, I have really been enjoying your recent videos and blades.
 
That is fabulous. The lightness and speed must be incredible but of course you have to wonder how it will stand up to impacts. I gotta know how that turns out!
 
William,

I'd love to hear some details on the making of the sword. Did you grind it? and how, what belts cut? Was forging involved, or did you do some milling? Curious minds want to know.
 
Nice work! I wonder how Ti would work if you made a heavily tip-weighted design to give it sufficient cutting power due to mass distribution but keeping the actual total weight down?
 
In case it's not obvious this belongs to Lycosa!

42 you have a good idea there it's just that tip heavy blades are not my thing usually.

HJK if you check the toughness of 6-4 it is incredible... like incredible! Not being as strong it will deform when the edge is too thin and used on hard targets, but that's true of many high end steels too. For some of them it seems to be a selling point ;)

David- ceramic belts, low speed, patience... I don't have a mill and actually set up time would be considerable as most of my work is one-off

More soon! Video editing to do!
 
I hear the Tikat received a lot of attention at the Canadian knife show William. Good!
I do believe that we will be seeing more blades made from Ti this upcoming year.
A 9" blade Aikuchi might be in order next.
Rolf
 
William- I am very impressed the the performance of the Ti blade. I am actually surprised it performed as well as it did!
My Tikat will serve me well and I'll never have to worry about rust.
Thanks...
Rolf
 
Thank you Daniel.
William- Did the Ti chip out, in that one spot, or just roll? I didn't think Ti chipped??
 
It just rolled a bit. I think I spent less than a minute bringing the edge back into line. The blade is a little wider than normal so you can do this edge reconditioning more over the years...

I don't think it can be chipped!

Daniel have you been able to chip it? I wonder if carbide would flake off in a sword impact... hmmmn maybe time to make another...
 
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