Has anyone on here tried their luck on heat anodizing their titanium shift knob?

I tried my hand at it with one of my titanium handled knives and this is what I came up with:

*The bottom handle was my first attempt at doing this so it is less uniformly coloured, the top one turned out really nice though, just the way I was looking for*





If anyone has please post up some pics

~James

 

Care to explain your process?

 

I started by taking my titanium parts and prepping them with a red scotch pad, then wiped them down with M600 (a surface prep solution for removing grease etc).

I then took a propane torch and learned the colors that the metal goes through based on how I heat it, I found that it starts as a gold, then starts to turn purple, then goes to a light blue, dark blue, back to a color of gold, and then finally green.

I would hold the flame to the metal at a close range of say an inch until it would start to turn red a little then I would pull it away and check the color until I got what I was looking for.

 

Looks good.

Btw, anodizing a metal process which actually makes something deposit onto another metal... I think youre thinking burnishing.

Butterfly knives eh. =P illegal down here:/

 

its very easy to do. if you use more heat you will get a much bolder color you just have to be faster, also if the Ti is polished it makes the colors stand off a lot more... the longer you hold the heat the different color it will go. you can get green, purple, blue, gold and all sorts of shade of each one