Making A TITANIUM HAMMER

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Taking on the challenge of forging a hammer for the blacksmith shop from Titanium! I want to see how a titanium hammer performs compared to a steel hammer! It definitely is not the easiest material to work, but it is very rewarding to work with titanium. I thought it would be especially cool to try and anodize the hammer and have a cool blue looking hammer! Hope you enjoy/enjoyed the video!

My name is Timothy Dyck. I got hooked on blacksmithing when I was 13 years old. I quickly realized that in order to keep blacksmithing I needed money to buy costly supplies, so I started making small items and selling them at the local farmer markets. The farmer markets turned into craft shows and craft shows turned into custom projects. Right out of high school I had the opportunity to apprentice under a blacksmith, where I worked with him for four years. We did projects for some of the most prestigious houses around the rocky mountains and were apart of many large public sculptures. I learned many valuable lessons while working under his training, but the desire to set up my own shop and go out on my own was always something I dreamed about.

So in 2013 I started setting up my full time blacksmith shop out of BC, Canada making custom projects and products like railings, gates, lights, stairs, fences and all the many blacksmithing tools required to keep the blacksmithing shop running. I love what I do and this is my dream job. I enjoy showing you what's going on in the blacksmith shop through the lens of a camera and would love to have you along for the ride as I live out my dream of being a blacksmith in the 21st century.

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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.

hoperp

He literally has the Tools to make Tools that help him make more Tools, what a loophole

qrate.

The small talk about coking while the hammer was heating up was much appreciated lol.

ramirocampa

Imagine if they put a sticker in the package saying, FRAGILE.

stevenpauljobs

titanium: is a lightweight high impact strenght expensive metal
him: i'll make a hammer out of it

pietrom

"24 Volts is about the color I want"

The color of d e a t h

avidcloud

“Whosever holds this hammer, if they be worthy, shall possess the power of Tim, eh”

paulbrown

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

foolsgold

FYI: Be careful with the accumulation of titanium grinding dust. It's pretty flammable.

Yashiro-nene_dies

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!

llspragulus