Titanium knife

[@bigoldgrizzly]

Love the attitude - 'this could be a total disaster, but lets do it any way' No such thing a a complete disaster provided you learn from it, and have fun trying. Excellent work mate ! Being an old fart, I'd go with the traditional Antler myself

[@dennisw7350]

Loved the video. First I seen w/ such exotic material.

[@DireWolfForge]

Not sure if you finished the Ti knife but I say go with the blank that you made from brass. Thanks for the video!

[@falloutm134]

Hey Gary, you did a fine job on that bit of titanium from the look of it that must be some realy exotic stuff, thats exiting. I would go with the green stuff its gonna go well with those colors and the shape of the blade.

[@speeDBump1949]

Use the one you made, with the brass filings in it.

[@rogerbrown6359]

Can't go wrong with antlers, nice work too!

[@TheChipmunk2008]

you can go wrong with antler, not that Gary would, but we have a victorian carving knife that looks like someone just took the least ergonomic looking bit, and shoved it at the least ergonomic angle onto the tang. It;'s victorian, and barely worn. Wonder why. LOL

[@garyhuston]

Thanks

[@RayYe-c8k]

New video!!!!!! Looks incredible gary. Do another antler handle please!!!!! Epic knife ❤

[@HoutmeyersP]

The most commonly used and cheaper grades are grade 2 and grade 5......those are both alloyed titanium ( as pure titanium is grade 1). I have used both grade 2 and grade 5. Grade 5 is used for better toughness and when bend hot and then cooled it has good spring properties( very often used as frames and liners for frame/linerlock pocket knives)....grade 2 does not have that level of springyness. Grade 2 is also a lot easyer to forge...more easy even than high carbon steel. Its difficult to tell what grade you are using but it would probably not be one of the less common titanium grades....as those are much more expensive and not just trown in a skip. Cut of a thin sliver ( slow cutting and keeping cool) heat it up and bend it....when cooled down try bending it...the grade 5 will have good spring properties. The reason why you dont want to cut using a cutting disk is that the oxide that forms when it gets hot is so hard it wont cut at all. Slow speed and a cutting tool with teeth is a better way .

[@garyhuston]

I don’t have anything to cut it with, I’ve tried hacksaw, bandsaw, coldsaw, and cutting discs. I think I would need some sort of carbide bandsaw blade.

[@HoutmeyersP]

@@garyhuston I guess than the grade you have gotten is not a common grade. Even grade 5 while tougher than grade 2 would cut fairly easy using a carbon steel bandsaw or circular sawblade.

[@fostermoody]

It seems like something that would have come out of the mines of Moria.

[@garyhuston]

I guess I should know what that is but I don’t!🤣

[@fostermoody]

@garyhuston Moria is where Tolkien's dwarves lived, and mined and forged a metal called mithril that was as strong as steel but much lighter. :)

[@wentdavid12]

Great video Gary!! The only thing that would have made it better for me would be subtitles as I’m watching from hospital room. Keep up the awesome work!!

[@garyhuston]

I think you can turn them on, they are auto generated..just click on the cc at the top of the screen..

[@wentdavid12]

@@garyhustonhmmmm I clicked on it as you said and it said “cc not available for this video “.

[@garyhuston]

@@wentdavid12 maybe it hasn’t had time to process it yet as it’s only just been uploaded, maybe try later.

[@wentdavid12]

@@garyhuston Thanks Gary! I’ve gotten joy and learned from your video for many years.

[@garyhuston]

Subtitles seem to be working now!

[@stuartmcintosh8275]

I would have an antler handle on it, maybe that’s because I’m an old Scott and think more traditional.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@tropifiori]

Ill have my wife bake you a scone with a 7/8 hole in the center you can put on the grinder and use on the titanium.

[@garyhuston]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 I hope you don’t tell her that!

[@TheChipmunk2008]

@@garyhuston yeah i was just hoping she doesn't read this LOL!

[@syrdavidar]

I think the brass handle would look good

[@TheChipmunk2008]

Yes i like the brass and resin handle option

[@zenaldiak]

If the blade refuse to become green, let the handle be it

[@brycelatham1602]

Black and brass please 🤩

[@dadegroot]

Go the green resin, you already have a colourful blade, might as well double down on it.

[@cavey001]

Grade 6 maybe? Used for airframes and jet engines.

[@sheep1ewe]

I hawe very little experience with Titanium to be hones, but one thing i learned by working with tin material was that root and shield gas was extremely important for a sucessful weld that would be approred by high tensile or vibration stress reliability. on the other hand a good frind of me, Roger who runs a large industrial forge in Sweden told me that it si possible to sucessfully forge titanium and he even made a video where he made a giant titanium ring for a mining cequipment company, i think he did mill the surfce whan it was done, but from the pictures and from what he told there where no problems with micro fractures as it where in the sheet metal and tube parts, so i don't know exactly but could it be that either it apends on the particular alloy and what it was made for, or, more likely in this particular case, it has to do with the thickness and possibly the matel will protect it self above ac ertain thickness? No ide if i am out runing the bicycle here or if it may be the case under certain circumstanses, i would love to know more abut this, why it can be both careless like this but at same time one also need to be super sensitive in other application. I know many types of stainless steel behave similar, but Titanium was still very different from anything i experienced before on the welding table. (unfortunatly they did not had any scrap parts i could take home so i could not try it in the forge and compare it).

[@chrism3839]

Option D a wood handle.

[@jonas2431]

That's some tough stuff

[@garyhuston]

It certainly is, I don’t think I will be doing it again!

[@jonas2431]

@@garyhuston the knife came out beautifully. It just took some beans to get there

[@Sobo.deso93]

👍🇮🇩

[@TheChipmunk2008]

I wonder if a plasma cutter would have worked to cut the blank

[@garyhuston]

Good question, I might give it a try just to see!

[@ItsMrAssholeToYou]

Probably pretty good for setting it on fire. There's a very good reason it has to be welded under inert gas, and it's not just weld quality.

[@TheChipmunk2008]

​@@ItsMrAssholeToYou good point... worth bearing in mind Gary....

[@TheChipmunk2008]

@@ItsMrAssholeToYou Thanks for that, hadn't considered that at all... forgot plasma cutting uses compressed air not shielding gas! ooof

[@erikerasmuson748]

Antler

[@Rottinrock]

grass

[@tonygurnham6042]

Brass

[@aaaatttt101]

Not the best guide, but a quick look at wiki suggests Grade 1 is the softest and most ductile and Grade 5 is what you have there. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium_alloys?wprov=sfla1

[@garyhuston]

I will dispute that, If you watch my earlier videos using grade 5 you will see that it is way softer and easily forged with a hand hammer and gives off a white dust when forged. This stuff is difficult to forge with a power hammer and gives off nothing during the forging process. I'm guessing it's one of the other couple of dozen grades!

[@aaaatttt101]

@@garyhuston Sure. It's only Wiki info and I'm no metallurgist.