Monday, December 9, 2024

Can I make Titanium Damascus?

tl;dr - Yes, he can, but it's expensive and involves a whole lot of oxidation.

Damascus steel has a noteworthy pattern that is really what Alec is trying to reproduce with the titanium shown in these videos. Here he starts with alternating grades of titanium stacked then forge welds them together.

The steps required to then anneal and machine the titanium billet that he produces are labor-intensive to say the least.

But he does get some cool rings out of the process.

Parts 2 and 3 of the series are after the jump.


 

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