Randy mcdaniel shows the forging of a titanium knife. Edited down to show the main points in order to fit in less than the 10 minute format. After showing how he forged a titanium sword on youtube a lot of comments were received about this material and how it is forged and how it holds up. Hopefully this will clear up some of the myths of this material and allow people to have fun with it. Tal Harris adds: titanium will burn if you get the heat high enough. It especially likes to react with iron scale in a gas furnace at high temperatures. Putting water on burning titanium is not good. Baking soda is the preferred extinguisher. A class D fire extinguisher is a good thing to have around. When water is applied to a titanium fire, the reaction disassociates the hydrogen from the oxygen, thus making a bigger fire in an uncontrolled manner. The grinding dust will also burn. There are also quite a few alloys of titanium, some with phase changes at certain temperatures and some without. This can make a BIG difference on how the piece reacts to forging. Knowing what businesses there are in your area could give clues as to what alloy you are finding. Chemical processing equipment frequently uses CP or commercially pure titanium. Aerospace applications get into other alloys with 6-4 (6% aluminum-4% vanadium) being the most common. WARNING: Forging, knife making, titanium and all of the shown operations are dangerous and should not be done with out proper training and the …
@keggerous i live near virginia beach, VA and theres a guild there called the Tidewater Blacksmiths Guild. im sure you can find a guild near you too if you do some research
My copy of “A Blacksmithing Primer” just arrived in the mail not 15 minutes ago. I just wanted you to know that it was this video that made me interested in purchasing the book. I’m just getting into blacksmithing and from thumbing through your book and the table of contents I can already tell that it’s going to be extremely helpful in getting me started.
Amazing, but I think you should sharpen it
this is sooo relaxing btw ur awesome ! ceep it up !
This is awesome. Keep it up.
dude you made it a little crippy but i forgive you:D lool
Awsome i just started Smithing/ Forging it’s alot of fun
Very nice knife and as you showed its very strong but how sharp is it or how sharp could it be.. if your going to make a video showing how sharp it is then please send me a message but very nice knife and skills
Kick ass! What temp do you have to get the titanium up to?
really, i found it really soft, almost like phospher bronze.. it must have been a different alloy of titanium i was using. i got it from a specialist in manchester UK. im based in Ireland and there are a few bombardier aerospace factories around Belfast that give me small amount of scrap from time to time. but the porous edge does make a good saw-like edge for cutting rope and other fibrous material! best of luck to you and good stuff!! i think personally tho that your knives are too cheap!
cool vid thanks very muchly
I can only imagine what that anvil cost, what a beautiful piece of work that is. What a great video!
I WANT IT!!!
60% stronger than steel baby
Very cool ! Super strong but hows the edge retention on that beast , and how hard is it to resharpen ?
That sledge has nothin’ on that blade.
NICE
cool
i have a gold smith in my town its realy cool to watch them make there costom designs.
sweet
the ultimate shanker
lol the special composition of the metal used to make the katana already made it the sharpest sword in the world. i don’t think making it with titanium is gonna make it any better than that
this is so cool i love watching blacksmiths work because it is so interesting how they make this stuff
1) titanium is shit for swords.
2) the katana is not a superlative weapon by any means.
you dont know much about swords do you?
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