Umnumzaan Anodization

[AngryFish]

Steve,

Couldn't help but notice the beautiful job you did anodizing the Umnumzaan on your blog.

Are you able to produce a lot of different colors?

I've seen this illustration which seems to show a dark bronze; It's #3 in the illustration. Can you produce that particular one and is this work that you are willing to do on a customer's knife?

 

[STR]

Just a few

Seriously look here. It shows a scan of about all I can get. Variations in alloys from one sheet to another can have some shade changes but mostly they come out pretty close usually once I determine the voltage I need to achieve the color wanted.

As for your question. I guess it depends on the knife and what all it will involve. Pics or links to the model help once I know the details. Yes I can get that color. Done it a lot for pocket clips actually.

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=645374&highlight=Prystrs

Thanks for the compliments and for asking

STR

 

[AngryFish]

I'm sorry, I should have been more specific. I have a lefty Umnumzaan that I would like to have color anodized. Would like to have the handles done in one color, and the grooves and pocket clip done in another.

Now that I've seen all of the colors you can do I'm trying to decide what colors I want.

 

[STR]

Let me know and we'll discuss whether its possible or not.

In fact let me mention a couple of things now to give you some food for thought before you end up disappointed.

Go here and look at the photo down a bit that reads Mr. Titanium with the voltage numbers under the corresponding color. This is the usual voltage required to get that color. http://www.mrtitanium.com/anodizing.html

To do two or more colors it really helps to do them in sequence. What I mean by that is this. Lets say you want the colors mauve and brown.

As you can see mauve is about 80 volts plus or minus. 90 gets more into a violet and 100 gets to the green level. If you want the entire folder brown we have a problem really because when I went to anodize the brown it would all be brown and when I try to do the grooves mauve it would all be mauve. So the only way to do these two colors, at least without a lot of additional work is to do the base color or the entire slab the higher voltage color and do the grooves the lower one. The reason is that if it takes 80 volts to get the mauve color and only 15 to get dark brown then of course when I clean out the groove lines to bare metal again and anodize them brown at that lower voltage it will not affect any colors done at a voltage higher than that.

STR