Titanium is VERY reactive with Oxygen, Hydrogen and Carbon amongst other things at high temperature. Heating in a blacksmiths forge with Charcoal / Carbon is a sure way to contaminate the outer skin and lead to a poor surface and the potential of stress and cracking of the surface. Better to use either electric or gas (and an oxidising atmosphere to reduce the possibility of picking up free Hydrogen). A sensible working temperature for Grade 5 (6AL-4V) is 925 to 950C. The density of Titanium is 56% that of steel, so you are going to have one really light hammer. Something else to be aware of, Titanium fines/ swarf from machining (and the grinding operations if you do a lot) can produce a thermite reaction if you have iron / steel swarf & fines left from previous operations. Ensure you clean down the machine and separate the different materials. Should a fire start that involves Titanium swarf / fines then dry powder or dry sand to smoother the fire is the way to go, using Water can give rise to an explosion. Retired now, but working in the Titanium industry for 40 years, along with Zirconium, Hafnium and Niobium amongst other things.
That's really interesting. Unless I'm mistaken, I thought thermite was aluminum oxide and iron oxide, so why does the steel and titanium shavings produce a reaction?
@@obh7762 You can make thermite mixture out of many different elements and oxides. Only requirements are that the end products are thermodynamically more stable and that the reaction produces enough heat to be self-sustainable. You can even make silicon dioxide (sand) and aluminium thermite and produce elemental silicon though its really hard to ignite.
@@obh7762 Can be produced from other materials. Titanium has a very high attraction to Oxygen and in certain cases can take it from other materials. Also worth bearing in mind that the fines can ignite spontaneously and the recommended way to store it is submerged under water. Swarf / fines fires can be huge, I've seen 100ft tall swarf fires, they are white hot and you cannot get anywhere near.
Being that titanium is roughly half the weight of steel, sure, it takes less energy to swing, but it's not better. The weight of the hammer is what flattens steel more than your own arm strength. But who cares titanium is cool lmao
If he can create a high momentum and direct this to the hammer by having a fixed arm (just small joint movements) he can create even more impuls to bend the metals he is working. But since he is using more muscles to make his arm more rigid, he will probably get tired sooner and his joints might take more damage.
@@krakowski_6237 Of course - but as you swing the hammer, it's lighter, so you can accelerate it faster in the fixed length of time of your strike - so you can put more energy into it during the swing.
If that is going to be a problem it can be extinguished by suffocating the flame with a bucket of sand. But i think the accumulation from projects like this is pretty low and since most of the process include hot forging it will generate a surface of titanium oxid wich is not combustible. It had been different if it was in a factory where one used cutting tools and could grinding in order to shape large amonths of metal, that type of fire can be extremly hot, but in this case i think it shall be fine if one just keeping an eye on it for some houers, titanuim dust will not lie and pyre smoldering like beads from an oxygen torch (or sparks from angle grinders on close range) hitting regular dust (at least not as far as i know) it either burn rapidly with an intense fire or does not. Most industrial fires directly caused by man that occured in the area where i live had it's origin in hasty works with Oxy/AC torches (mainly deconstruction works on dismantling areas where people get tired and went home to early and did not use proper heatprotection blankets) and people forgot to sitting firewatch after the wok was done.
@@miguelcontreras5782 I think you're saying its not flammable since its all burnt up from the grinding? If so that's false. I worked at an aerospace company welding titanium. I was shown a controlled demonstration and it lights up pretty violently.
So as a home smithy, I’m so surprised at the titanium. It stayed red for FAR longer then steel would. I also was impressed by the lack of impurities flaking of in the hammering process (saw someone else mentioning it too). Great vid!
Now do another one of tungsten, would mess with friends and family being handed one after the other :D edit: regarding the Metric/imperial : ua-cam.com/video/hid7EJkwDNk/v-deo.html :)
@@SnowblindOtter are you thinking of tungsten-carbide? Pure tungsten is an element... what would it degrade into? Now, getting it to 3700k - that is the challenge :D
@@DanielChristiansen I was thinking about tungsten carbide, yes. Most people talk about 'forging tungsten' referring to tungsten carbide. However, I will point out that the *MELTING* point of elemental tungsten is 6,200 degrees. Its Brittle-Ductile Transition(also known as Forging) temperature is around 800 degrees. Getting pure tungsten to forging temperature would be easy enough, really, but the problems would arise from the uncertainty regarding how toxic tungsten oxide species are, and the fact that enough tungsten to forge could be more expensive than pure gold of the same amount. Also, I deliberately converted my temperatures to Fahrenheit. I apologize if you'll have to convert them back, but I'm not a fan of Celsius/Kelvin. It's just the one Metric unit that's not superior to Imperial.
Daniel Christiansen The temperature required to make tungsten soft enough to try to work would be well beyond what you could do in a home shop. The melting point is over double that of most steels.
@@velocitypeasant5832 Well no, you shouldn't wear synthetic materials like nylon or spandex because they'll melt under heat and stick to you. A girl in my welding class had that happen.
years ago I built and worked on equipment at a forge specializing it titanium and the black smith knocked me out a titanium digging bar, It was one of my most prized tools my whole working life. So strange and light with such power and strength, and the blue green sparks and spooky sound when you hit concrete. Out of this world fire work show. Loved the looks of coworkers when they picked up my pry/digging bar and it was NOT what they thought. Word of caution!! titanium shavings can auto ignite similar to magnesium and need special fire fighting equipment and storage considerations.
With the anodizing of titanium, while a big set up like that works, I find more success when I use just some 9V batteries in series with a positive lead to the titanium, and a negative lead attached to a brush or sponge soaked in some electrolyte solution. It’s quite literally “brushing” on the layer of titanium oxide, and the variable voltage (depending on number of 9v batteries) lets you make lots of different colors. It also lets you make it multiple colors too if you are into a look like that
Hi Tim. I am going to teach a lot of people how a complex economy works. I will use your video for illustrating the basic ideas. BTW, great work. Thanks.
Bro, that’s the kind of a content I personally, and I think other people want to see! This is a great video! Amazing job getting an titanium hammer idea! Keep going my man!!! 👏👏👏
I used to swing a titanium Stiletto framing hammer. It was a 14oz hammer with a 28oz hit. No carpal issues after swinging it all day like I did with an Estwing. Best tool I ever bought as a framer because, not only did I bury nails in less swings, but I didn't need to swing it as hard!
that hammer looks like it barely weighs. Titanium is a tough material, yes, but I don't know if it's the best to smith with. there might just not be enough hammer to hammer.
OK, throwing sparks is not a big deal in a forge; everything throws sparks at some time! If you are banging away on some piece of automotive nature, those titanium sparks could ignite fuels/vapors. Pretty unlikely, but not impossible. The stuff sparks with the slightest provocation...not like ferrocerium, but it's not a placid metal. Folks in petroleum industries use non-sparking bronze alloys in their tools; this is the opposite! Cool project!
@огромная эрекция DA I have the same... they miss all chemical education in the schools and even not know how pronounce propelly the names of elementairy body
@@joshschneider9766 That's what I thought, but Google says "vuh·nei·dee·uhm", whatever difference that makes. P.S. IANAL in this case means I am not a linguist.
Raymond Ashby Archaeopteryx fossils, which are the oldest generally accepted as birds, are around 150 million years old, which means that birds in general came after eggs in general. That answer is also true-the egg comes first-when you narrow it down to chickens and the specific eggs from which they emerge.
Making coke: Cook the coal (coke the coal). Once the coal has been cooked (coked), it is coke. To coke means to cook. Similarly, the noun coke means cooked coal. If that's not as clear as mud, I'm going home.
@@hughe29 titanium is hard as s**t. most of the energy gets dumped on the anvil when u try to hammer it. i heard some stories about people shattering anvils while working on titanium.
b v titanium isn’t hard at all. It is very tough though and deformation is quite difficult as well as wear resistance even when it is hot. when it comes to splitting an anvil in half those are just made up stories.
AH Those pants! I'm an amputee and I was out welding and came in the house to make a sandwich, pop a cold beer, and out of nowhere....I could smell smoke. I checked in the garbage, between the couch cushions, then went and asked my girlfriend. "Babe? Do you smell smoke? We both start looking around when she gives a little laugh and says.. "Hey Einstein, You're on fire!" My whole pant leg was smoldering away. Had to go out front and put myself out with the hose. Steam was shooting up. Ptssssssssssstt !! The neighbor lady across the street shaking her head starts waving the kids in. " Okay kids! in the house! That crazy man is at it again." I can't quite feel ya when it comes to the leg. But I can relate Titanium Tim. Cool vid.
Need to use Titanium wire to suspend the piece you're anodizing. it'll give you far better results. Not sure if that wire is titanium or not. My apologies if it is. I'd also clean it a bit more with something like simple green before you even put it in the multi-etch. And don't touch it with bare hands at any point in the process. Any oils on it will create little splotches. Also, I wish Multi-etch weren't so incredibly expensive and from only one supplier here in Canada.
I didn't have any titanium wire, very unfortunately. I was cleaning it with the TSP cleaner and brake cleaner before I put it into the acid etch, and that seemed to work well. It came down to having the right temp on the multi etch, that seemed to do the trick to dial it in. I agree, very expensive stuff, with a shelf life too!
That was cool. The way you was swinging it was crazy. Looked like it was super light. I'm glad to see your back. Please keep making more videos. You the man. Thanks for sharing.
@@averygoodfantasticname4206 Depends on quality, size, and weight. titanium is really expensive still, considering that titanium is a very expensive metal to be using to make hammers out of.
Fun project. You got inquisitive and pursued a vision. Good for you! I like you enthusiasm and desire to grow out of experience. Great skills. I like your shop & learned something more about titanium.
It bugged be that half the time the guy wasn't wearing PPE, and when his pants caught on fire I laughed. No matter how experienced you are at forging, you still gotta protect yourself.
Titanium is VERY reactive with Oxygen, Hydrogen and Carbon amongst other things at high temperature. Heating in a blacksmiths forge with Charcoal / Carbon is a sure way to contaminate the outer skin and lead to a poor surface and the potential of stress and cracking of the surface. Better to use either electric or gas (and an oxidising atmosphere to reduce the possibility of picking up free Hydrogen). A sensible working temperature for Grade 5 (6AL-4V) is 925 to 950C. The density of Titanium is 56% that of steel, so you are going to have one really light hammer.
Something else to be aware of, Titanium fines/ swarf from machining (and the grinding operations if you do a lot) can produce a thermite reaction if you have iron / steel swarf & fines left from previous operations. Ensure you clean down the machine and separate the different materials. Should a fire start that involves Titanium swarf / fines then dry powder or dry sand to smoother the fire is the way to go, using Water can give rise to an explosion.
Retired now, but working in the Titanium industry for 40 years, along with Zirconium, Hafnium and Niobium amongst other things.
That's really interesting. Unless I'm mistaken, I thought thermite was aluminum oxide and iron oxide, so why does the steel and titanium shavings produce a reaction?
@@obh7762 You can make thermite mixture out of many different elements and oxides. Only requirements are that the end products are thermodynamically more stable and that the reaction produces enough heat to be self-sustainable. You can even make silicon dioxide (sand) and aluminium thermite and produce elemental silicon though its really hard to ignite.
@@obh7762 Can be produced from other materials. Titanium has a very high attraction to Oxygen and in certain cases can take it from other materials. Also worth bearing in mind that the fines can ignite spontaneously and the recommended way to store it is submerged under water. Swarf / fines fires can be huge, I've seen 100ft tall swarf fires, they are white hot and you cannot get anywhere near.
Yep...melted a Cincinnati turning titanium with the wrong coolant
Also reactive with Nitrogen...
He literally has the Tools to make Tools that help him make more Tools, what a loophole
It’s like in order to make money you need to have it lol
Gotta spend money to make money
Great minds think alike!!!
Ditto
You took the words out of my mouth!
The small talk about coking while the hammer was heating up was much appreciated lol.
Ya it's better than linus's segway to a sponsor
If u know what I mean😉
@@doitwithnick501 nah
titanium: is a lightweight high impact strenght expensive metal
him: i'll make a hammer out of it
Imagine if they put a sticker in the package saying, FRAGILE.
XD
lmao if that did happen and they did take care of the "fragile" titanium and not the real fragile packages, it would be much more hilarious
Stove jebs aren't u dead
Don't u know it's illegal to comment while being dead😑
Walter Walter
"24 Volts is about the color I want"
The color of d e a t h
“Whosever holds this hammer, if they be worthy, shall possess the power of Tim, eh”
Being that titanium is roughly half the weight of steel, sure, it takes less energy to swing, but it's not better. The weight of the hammer is what flattens steel more than your own arm strength.
But who cares titanium is cool lmao
You’re right
If he can create a high momentum and direct this to the hammer by having a fixed arm (just small joint movements) he can create even more impuls to bend the metals he is working. But since he is using more muscles to make his arm more rigid, he will probably get tired sooner and his joints might take more damage.
kinetic energy is mass times the square of velocity - so doubling the mass gives you twice as much energy; doubling the speed gives you four times.
energy has to come from somewhere, you can't just make something weigh less and voila you suddenly hit everything twice as hard
@@krakowski_6237 Of course - but as you swing the hammer, it's lighter, so you can accelerate it faster in the fixed length of time of your strike - so you can put more energy into it during the swing.
FYI: Be careful with the accumulation of titanium grinding dust. It's pretty flammable.
God yes, it's like magnesium nearly.
😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳
If that is going to be a problem it can be extinguished by suffocating the flame with a bucket of sand.
But i think the accumulation from projects like this is pretty low and since most of the process include hot forging it will generate a surface of titanium oxid wich is not combustible.
It had been different if it was in a factory where one used cutting tools and could grinding in order to shape large amonths of metal, that type of fire can be extremly hot, but in this case i think it shall be fine if one just keeping an eye on it for some houers, titanuim dust will not lie and pyre smoldering like beads from an oxygen torch (or sparks from angle grinders on close range) hitting regular dust (at least not as far as i know) it either burn rapidly with an intense fire or does not. Most industrial fires directly caused by man that occured in the area where i live had it's origin in hasty works with Oxy/AC torches (mainly deconstruction works on dismantling areas where people get tired and went home to early and did not use proper heatprotection blankets) and people forgot to sitting firewatch after the wok was done.
It all burnt as he ground it
@@miguelcontreras5782 I think you're saying its not flammable since its all burnt up from the grinding? If so that's false. I worked at an aerospace company welding titanium. I was shown a controlled demonstration and it lights up pretty violently.
So as a home smithy, I’m so surprised at the titanium. It stayed red for FAR longer then steel would. I also was impressed by the lack of impurities flaking of in the hammering process (saw someone else mentioning it too). Great vid!
Oh man, I thought it's McConaughey forging some cool shxt
That's exactly what I thought on another one of his videos. He looks and sounds like McConaughey.
@@rt9519 6y6
Its Methew McConaughey
Its Mark Zuckerberg
C'mon tars
Next Episode:
Making a NETHERITE HAMMER
LOL neverite doesn’t even exist LOL!!!
@@habibi_nation3673 it does exist in y15 nether
@@eggegggegg it’s a j9kwfg
@C. J. HEY!! DONT TALK TO ME LIKE THAT, IT IS RACIST TO TALK TO ME LIKE THAT!!! (sorry for all caps 🧢)
Hamer
Are you even blacksmithing if you aren't setting yourself on fire?
No u Are not
Are we gonna gloss over the fact that he said “leg-pant”?😂😂
certified dwarf classic
Setting myself on fire was an almost daily routine due to my reluctance of wearing flame resistant overalls
@@Mat0305 when I did rural firefighting, even with flame resistant clothing, some of us were setting ourselves on fire daily anyway.
iv had a titanium hammer in my hands for 4 years now. I remember the day i switched that how much i like it. Great video brother.
Now do another one of tungsten, would mess with friends and family being handed one after the other :D
edit: regarding the Metric/imperial : ua-cam.com/video/hid7EJkwDNk/v-deo.html :)
Tungsten doesn't forge. It just degrades and throws off dangerous fumes.
@@SnowblindOtter are you thinking of tungsten-carbide? Pure tungsten is an element... what would it degrade into? Now, getting it to 3700k - that is the challenge :D
@@DanielChristiansen it oxidizes and flakes off rather than homogenize into different shapes
@@DanielChristiansen I was thinking about tungsten carbide, yes. Most people talk about 'forging tungsten' referring to tungsten carbide.
However, I will point out that the *MELTING* point of elemental tungsten is 6,200 degrees. Its Brittle-Ductile Transition(also known as Forging) temperature is around 800 degrees. Getting pure tungsten to forging temperature would be easy enough, really, but the problems would arise from the uncertainty regarding how toxic tungsten oxide species are, and the fact that enough tungsten to forge could be more expensive than pure gold of the same amount.
Also, I deliberately converted my temperatures to Fahrenheit. I apologize if you'll have to convert them back, but I'm not a fan of Celsius/Kelvin. It's just the one Metric unit that's not superior to Imperial.
Daniel Christiansen The temperature required to make tungsten soft enough to try to work would be well beyond what you could do in a home shop. The melting point is over double that of most steels.
Nice to hear this stuff from a Canadian 🇨🇦 it makes blacksmithing and forging sound easier thanks bro!
Love it when you work with Titanium. Keep up the good work.
Thank you! More to come!
Timothy Dyck Why not use natural gas for heating the forge? It pretty much reaches full temperature within 10 minutes of ignition.
I would recommend getting a shop apron to protect your clothes. My high school had a number of them and they worked amazingly well.
And thus, Timothy learned the most valuable lesson of stepping foot in a blacksmith shop: Always wear Boot-Cut or Relaxed-Fit jeans.
Pants don’t matter. He needs a smithing apron.
gloves also seem like a good idea. Ones hands are still the most powerful and versatile tool, you don't want to damage them
I personally wear a tracksuit. You can wear whatever you want, it's the apron that's necessary
@@velocitypeasant5832
Well no, you shouldn't wear synthetic materials like nylon or spandex because they'll melt under heat and stick to you. A girl in my welding class had that happen.
@@jacobg5122 that's fair. I was basing that from my own experience, and I haven't had anything happen to me.
years ago I built and worked on equipment at a forge specializing it titanium and the black smith knocked me out a titanium digging bar, It was one of my most prized tools my whole working life. So strange and light with such power and strength, and the blue green sparks and spooky sound when you hit concrete. Out of this world fire work show. Loved the looks of coworkers when they picked up my pry/digging bar and it was NOT what they thought.
Word of caution!! titanium shavings can auto ignite similar to magnesium and need special fire fighting equipment and storage considerations.
Usted sabe si es posible templar o endurecer el titanio en agua o aceite
"Got another battery, the neighbors are going to miss that later" lol sounds like I'm watching the Red Green show.
“If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.”
" _Tims Hammer Case hardened_ "
Condition: Factory new
Price: _"Titanium is really expensive"_
I got a case hardened stiletto knife minimal wear
nah more an anodized navy. the "yellow" part is not really yellow its just reflective so it doesnt work.
in all the smithing videos I've watched online and fordged in fire episodes IVE NEVER SEEN SOMEONE work a power hammer like that....
WOW....
This guy seems really nice and genuine
I didn’t know they made blacksmiths from Minecraft in real life. That’s so cool
Yeah dude I was surprised they copied something from a block game.
I can tell somebody’s gonna get whooshed
U are extremely stupid
@@zzleeep3433 r/wooosh. Had to do it to em.
@@leeditor7906 already happened.
For a mechanic there is nothing more beautiful than these white titanium sparks. Titanium is by far my favorite metal, maybe even element.
With the anodizing of titanium, while a big set up like that works, I find more success when I use just some 9V batteries in series with a positive lead to the titanium, and a negative lead attached to a brush or sponge soaked in some electrolyte solution. It’s quite literally “brushing” on the layer of titanium oxide, and the variable voltage (depending on number of 9v batteries) lets you make lots of different colors. It also lets you make it multiple colors too if you are into a look like that
Hi Tim. I am going to teach a lot of people how a complex economy works. I will use your video for illustrating the basic ideas.
BTW, great work. Thanks.
bloody hell bud, you've got the most stereotypical Canadian accent i've ever heard!
Right, eh?
@Luke yeet how would you know? did you ever live in alaska?
Is that what it is?! I thought he had a lisp or something.
You are the number 1 lobster
Trailer Park Boys "Decent" I lost it after that! 🤣
Watching this is nice. All of your movements are fluid and clean. Love it good work!
Bro, that’s the kind of a content I personally, and I think other people want to see! This is a great video! Amazing job getting an titanium hammer idea! Keep going my man!!! 👏👏👏
This channel is so incredibly underrated. The production quality and content is fantastic.
Tim: I'm going to cut a piece from this titanium
10 seconds later...
Tim: That literally took forever
I used to swing a titanium Stiletto framing hammer. It was a 14oz hammer with a 28oz hit. No carpal issues after swinging it all day like I did with an Estwing. Best tool I ever bought as a framer because, not only did I bury nails in less swings, but I didn't need to swing it as hard!
26:25 When you go from using steel tools to mithril tools in Runescape
Good to see somebody make Blacksmithing Fun..My dad was a blacksmith i always enjoyed watching him..
Good stuff Thumbs up
that hammer looks like it barely weighs. Titanium is a tough material, yes, but I don't know if it's the best to smith with. there might just not be enough hammer to hammer.
It's a joy to watch such fluid movements under the big hammer - nice work!
At last, something in the UA-cam recommended that's actually interesting
Wonderful, beautiful build. Monster hammer and mill you have. Keep stirring the solution while anodizing
OK, throwing sparks is not a big deal in a forge; everything throws sparks at some time!
If you are banging away on some piece of automotive nature, those titanium sparks could ignite fuels/vapors.
Pretty unlikely, but not impossible.
The stuff sparks with the slightest provocation...not like ferrocerium, but it's not a placid metal.
Folks in petroleum industries use non-sparking bronze alloys in their tools; this is the opposite!
Cool project!
Bronze Alloys? The most common anti spark alloy is beryllium copper, not bronze.
@@Toxicity1987 Bronze will do too
Or brass as I've used on tuprintine systems at paper mills .
Gotta love the unedited raw footage of his forging.
Looks like that would be the perfect finishing hammer with it being lighter but still maintaining the larger size!
Mike Bogausch interesting idea! Now I’m thinking about hollow steel hammers.
@@cholulahotsauce6166 check out tinsmith hammers - they've been around for couple hundred years :)
Nicely done... I like the soap bubble coloration.
Vanadium is pronounced almost the same as “Canadian.” You should be able to say it like a pro.
think canadium then slap the V on, vanadium
Vuh nay dee um
@огромная эрекция
DA
I have the same...
they miss all chemical education in the schools and even not know how pronounce propelly the names of elementairy body
Leland Holton Great explanation
@@joshschneider9766 That's what I thought, but Google says "vuh·nei·dee·uhm", whatever difference that makes. P.S. IANAL in this case means I am not a linguist.
It's a visual satisfaction to see this man at work. I enjoyed every bit of the video.
I admire you.
i’ve always wandered why does anvils have that nose now i know
i was wondering about the hole myself. now i know too
yep
It called a beak abd the hole is a hidey hole
Nose? You mean the horn of the anvil
I’ve seen farmers use it a lot for bending horseshoes to the right size for a particular horse
I dont know how well that hammer will work, but it was fun to watch you make it. I enjoy the videos.
Tim: "its really light"
me: "make a massive hammer out of titanium that weighs as much as an average hammer"
You my friend are a joy to watch
"He used the hammer to make the hammer"
This meme was made by floor gang
So how was the first hammer created 🤯
@@Brand0nDz Which wuz foist: chicken or chicken ??
Raymond Ashby Archaeopteryx fossils, which are the oldest generally accepted as birds, are around 150 million years old, which means that birds in general came after eggs in general. That answer is also true-the egg comes first-when you narrow it down to chickens and the specific eggs from which they emerge.
So someone had to make the first hammer the hard way 🤣🤣🤣
I love it! But nothing can beat my old WWI engineer hammer, that baby is right in the sweet spot for weight and size.
No one:
This guy: I use the hammer to make the hammer
You put so much time into this good job !
Thanks youtube for suggesting me this video. Now, I can crack a walnut.
Turned out really nice
He lool liks Mathew Mcconaughey. Allright allright allright.
The finessing is marvelous
Making coke:
Cook the coal (coke the coal).
Once the coal has been cooked (coked), it is coke.
To coke means to cook.
Similarly, the noun coke means cooked coal.
If that's not as clear as mud, I'm going home.
...and if you cook coke you get crack ! Lol. ...ill see my self out now
mud isn’t clear???
@@dingus6317
It's a MrPete222 saying. He's known for saying that after explaining a process in detail.
I’m Canadian and I think this guy is the most Canadian person I’ve seen
Your anvil isn't answering? That's why it's ringing when you're forging.
What do you mean?
@@hughe29 titanium is hard as s**t. most of the energy gets dumped on the anvil when u try to hammer it. i heard some stories about people shattering anvils while working on titanium.
Epic win
b v titanium isn’t hard at all. It is very tough though and deformation is quite difficult as well as wear resistance even when it is hot. when it comes to splitting an anvil in half those are just made up stories.
@@kajiarrow7761 i mean titanium is kind of hard
That turned out great!! Love your shop, have a few toys I would love to have in mine.
The hammer looks like the hammer from the game: Getting over it with Bennett Foddy😅😅
@Jack Langley you got me!
awesome connection bro what if (hear me out) hammers look the same
for a reason
@Jack Langley I had the exact same thought. It was like I physically couldn't read anything after "the game." until I lost. I blame the internet.
Nice work. We posted this video on our homemade tools forum this week :)
You should have put on a "Ti" for the elemental abbreviation. And it still would've fit with Tim
Man you are blessed with such a beautiful hands!!!!!
Thank you so much 😀
Do Inconel next!
I know right! Would be pretty cool!
The typical polite nice Canadian UA-camr❤️
Crafting a diamond pic when your used to mining with a Iron pic
It has a really nice sound when hit!
Nobody :
Timothy: makes a hammer with a hammer
Good work on titanium. 👌👌👍
"Whosever holds this hammer, if they be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor".
You make the tools you make the tools with. Decent!
Dough Marcaida: your hammer sir, will Kill...
Keeel
Love the color!
You know if you hit titanium onto a titanium surface it makes a sonic boom, maybe try making a titanium anvil and see if it’s true
Not sure if you are joking because there's no way that's remotely possible.
why do people think titanium is magical or something lol
AH Those pants! I'm an amputee and I was out welding and came in the house to make a sandwich, pop a cold beer, and out of nowhere....I could smell smoke.
I checked in the garbage, between the couch cushions, then went and asked my girlfriend.
"Babe? Do you smell smoke?
We both start looking around when she gives a little laugh and says.. "Hey Einstein, You're on fire!"
My whole pant leg was smoldering away. Had to go out front and put myself out with the hose.
Steam was shooting up. Ptssssssssssstt !!
The neighbor lady across the street shaking her head starts waving the kids in.
" Okay kids! in the house! That crazy man is at it again."
I can't quite feel ya when it comes to the leg. But I can relate Titanium Tim. Cool vid.
Used one of the lightest metals then disappointed when not heavy enough?😂
I ordered titanium sheet metal from these guys, very good straightforward service
Awesome! Thanks for letting me know!
Need to use Titanium wire to suspend the piece you're anodizing. it'll give you far better results. Not sure if that wire is titanium or not. My apologies if it is. I'd also clean it a bit more with something like simple green before you even put it in the multi-etch. And don't touch it with bare hands at any point in the process. Any oils on it will create little splotches.
Also, I wish Multi-etch weren't so incredibly expensive and from only one supplier here in Canada.
I didn't have any titanium wire, very unfortunately. I was cleaning it with the TSP cleaner and brake cleaner before I put it into the acid etch, and that seemed to work well. It came down to having the right temp on the multi etch, that seemed to do the trick to dial it in. I agree, very expensive stuff, with a shelf life too!
That was cool. The way you was swinging it was crazy. Looked like it was super light. I'm glad to see your back.
Please keep making more videos.
You the man.
Thanks for sharing.
I don't know how you even afford or find a piece of titanium that large.
It's around 15 dollars per pound I think
@@averygoodfantasticname4206 Depends on quality, size, and weight. titanium is really expensive still, considering that titanium is a very expensive metal to be using to make hammers out of.
On the website, that piece of titanium 2x36 inches is $350
@@portajohn That's expensive for 3 feet of stock.
really great work. the blue titanium looks amazing. well done
Him: *uses titanium*
Me: Good enough but if you want stronger metal you should’ve have used Tungsten
@@tejassingh5344 then use graphene
@@tejassingh5344 I admire your intelligence
Then use nuclear pasta
B11 - JoshuaSiriban weapons grade uranium is strong and dense..... just saying.
@@theblacktemplars2483 it can also kill the wielder from radiation sickness
A weapon of true destruction
Good play on words at 0:55: "If you've ever tried to find titanium, you know how hard it is!"
This looks like a hammer that Apple made
like all appearance and price tag? and less performance....oh yeah uncool apple
This is my first time to see your video and it was so interesting and fun to watch!
titanium sparks are no joke. burn through most materials. and good luck using an end mill... titanium loves eating bits
@@BloopTube I can only imagine...
BloopTube I used only 1 set of inserts on the titanium hammer I made
I think I remember that titanium coming off the lathe can catch fire in the bin. Maybe the hammer will work better with copper or a softer metal.
Why not water jet the holes?
Fun project. You got inquisitive and pursued a vision. Good for you! I like you enthusiasm and desire to grow out of experience. Great skills. I like your shop & learned something more about titanium.
It bugged be that half the time the guy wasn't wearing PPE, and when his pants caught on fire I laughed. No matter how experienced you are at forging, you still gotta protect yourself.
Just stumbled across your channel. I appreciate your humorous, positive and silly/cheery attitude. Keep that up. Subscribed.
Probably the worst metal to make a hammer from, apart from mercury of course
kar oma gallium
Plutonium isn't the best either.
And gold
brass
@@kiousuke2897
Isnt gold very dense? It would deform rather quickly, but it would give one hell of a whack
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In russian that's similar, кокс = cocaine, but even the coal is called like that
In Sebria too, funny thing in USA when you say koks they think about...
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SO cool! great work.
Its nice to see a skinny bloke like myself doing such a "big mans" sport (aka blacksmithing)
Most people were his size and shorter during pre industrial times and they did fine.
Honestly this is just really neat
We not gonna talk about how he switched the metal first it was round then orange and now silver this isn’t right.
i see a conspiracy
What?
What?
Yeeeaaah... what?
The color effect you get when galvanizing metals, varies with the thickness of oxide coating the material, and temperature.
Cool project, had to satisfy some various curiosities.