Hi guys,
just wanted to show you some of my titanium Stuff I made, its mostly Pendants or Keychain hangers.
I dont posess a great many advanced machinery so the pieces you see here are completely Handmade with traditional techniques like saw piercing, riveting etc. No CNC or Laser or something like that was used, just basic tools. Working titanium by Hand is not the nicest experience and takes some time but if you put in some patience it can be done. In Terms of fabrication you are somewhat limited , brazing Titanium is not possible, so if you dont have a PUK or Laser to weld... I had to make the best of what possibilities were avaliable to me.
So here`s some of it:
The first one I ever made was the Ti-Topo dogtag. The Idea behind it was to use a topographical map, use select height lines of the terrain and make a pendant that hows ome of the actual topography of the selected area. This way you can always carry some little piece of "home turf" around your neck. It consists of several distinct layers of titanium sheet which were hand sawn and then riveted together. The river is of cause anodized in blue.
With the same layered technique I made some nice Crusader, Knight Templar themed stuff, since ti doesn`t anodize red I used a special Foil material( Waterproof, UV resistant) to make the red layer.
Ther`s also some other Stuff, first is a more architectural approach only using squares and rectangles but still ending up with something interesting, second one I call "the Eye of the (Ti)ger" since it depicts half of a tigers face with the eye in the center.
I also do some rather conventional etching on Copper,, Brass German Silver etc. and make pendants of these but since this is about showing the Ti stuff I wont delve into this far. At least here`s one example:
So, thats it so far, thanks for watching!
Best Regards
rolynd
just wanted to show you some of my titanium Stuff I made, its mostly Pendants or Keychain hangers.
I dont posess a great many advanced machinery so the pieces you see here are completely Handmade with traditional techniques like saw piercing, riveting etc. No CNC or Laser or something like that was used, just basic tools. Working titanium by Hand is not the nicest experience and takes some time but if you put in some patience it can be done. In Terms of fabrication you are somewhat limited , brazing Titanium is not possible, so if you dont have a PUK or Laser to weld... I had to make the best of what possibilities were avaliable to me.
So here`s some of it:
The first one I ever made was the Ti-Topo dogtag. The Idea behind it was to use a topographical map, use select height lines of the terrain and make a pendant that hows ome of the actual topography of the selected area. This way you can always carry some little piece of "home turf" around your neck. It consists of several distinct layers of titanium sheet which were hand sawn and then riveted together. The river is of cause anodized in blue.
With the same layered technique I made some nice Crusader, Knight Templar themed stuff, since ti doesn`t anodize red I used a special Foil material( Waterproof, UV resistant) to make the red layer.
Ther`s also some other Stuff, first is a more architectural approach only using squares and rectangles but still ending up with something interesting, second one I call "the Eye of the (Ti)ger" since it depicts half of a tigers face with the eye in the center.
I also do some rather conventional etching on Copper,, Brass German Silver etc. and make pendants of these but since this is about showing the Ti stuff I wont delve into this far. At least here`s one example:
So, thats it so far, thanks for watching!
Best Regards
rolynd