Leatherman Charge Damascus Modification (pic heavy)

[tattoosteve99]

That tool looks more fabulouser every time I look at it   Wish I were coming to the meet so I could gaze upon it in person

I got to have a good look at it in person.  It really is as good as it looks in the pictures.

That makes me want fly over there and tofty on the head and run off with the prize . But I can't lol

[Metropolicity]

I think I asked this before, but how did you annodize the scales again?

Was it electro magic or heat treated?

[Sparky415]

Thanks to Tofty I got to see and play with this at the Meet

It really is a thing of beauty in real life   

It should be in the Louvre  ( you could send the Mona Lisa away to be cleaned and no one would notice )

[Zed]

Thanks to Tofty I got to see and play with this at the Meet

It really is a thing of beauty in real life   

It should be in the Louvre  ( you could send the Mona Lisa away to be cleaned and no one would notice )

yeah would much rather look at this than the mona lisa       any fondling pics tony   

[Tofty]

Thanks guys, it's nice to give it an airing with people who appreciate a good mod.
Now the scales need a good rubdown with acatone to get all the finger prints off.

Sounds like your tools are coming along well Steve, hopefully when it's finished it will be so nice as to distract you from clobbering me over the head.

The scales were electro anodised in 5g/L Ammonium Sulphate solution at around 18-20V using a variable power supply.
Then i did them i didn't realise that titanium should be lightly etched to remove the natural oxide layer so my experiments were unsuccessful until i realised there must be some kind of barrier inhibiting anodising but with no idea how to chemically remove it i just sanded down the front face and tried again with pretty good results.
I'm still not sure what is needed to etch titanium but freshly cut titanium should take the anodising fine. Let me know if you want a bit more infomation on exactly how i built my anodising set-up.

Surely not the Louvre, more likely the Tate Modern, right next to the pile of bricks and the pile of rubbish on a plinth.

I think Neil got some good shots of most things so we can look forward to seeing them.

[Zed]

Thanks guys, it's nice to give it an airing with people who appreciate a good mod.
Now the scales need a good rubdown with acatone to get all the finger prints off.

Sounds like your tools are coming along well Steve, hopefully when it's finished it will be so nice as to distract you from clobbering me over the head.

The scales were electro anodised in 5g/L Ammonium Sulphate solution at around 18-20V using a variable power supply.
Then i did them i didn't realise that titanium should be lightly etched to remove the natural oxide layer so my experiments were unsuccessful until i realised there must be some kind of barrier inhibiting anodising but with no idea how to chemically remove it i just sanded down the front face and tried again with pretty good results.
I'm still not sure what is needed to etch titanium but freshly cut titanium should take the anodising fine. Let me know if you want a bit more infomation on exactly how i built my anodising set-up.

Surely not the Louvre, more likely the Tate Modern, right next to the pile of bricks and the pile of rubbish on a plinth.

I think Neil got some good shots of most things so we can look forward to seeing them.

pics Neil      

[Hypnos3510]

That really is some nice work, very cool and very clean. Huge fan.

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[Sparky415]

Thanks to Tofty I got to see and play with this at the Meet

It really is a thing of beauty in real life   

It should be in the Louvre  ( you could send the Mona Lisa away to be cleaned and no one would notice )

yeah would much rather look at this than the mona lisa       any fondling pics tony   

I can't fondle and photo 

[Metropolicity]

Thanks guys, it's nice to give it an airing with people who appreciate a good mod.
Now the scales need a good rubdown with acatone to get all the finger prints off.

Sounds like your tools are coming along well Steve, hopefully when it's finished it will be so nice as to distract you from clobbering me over the head.

The scales were electro anodised in 5g/L Ammonium Sulphate solution at around 18-20V using a variable power supply.
Then i did them i didn't realise that titanium should be lightly etched to remove the natural oxide layer so my experiments were unsuccessful until i realised there must be some kind of barrier inhibiting anodising but with no idea how to chemically remove it i just sanded down the front face and tried again with pretty good results.
I'm still not sure what is needed to etch titanium but freshly cut titanium should take the anodising fine. Let me know if you want a bit more infomation on exactly how i built my anodising set-up.

Surely not the Louvre, more likely the Tate Modern, right next to the pile of bricks and the pile of rubbish on a plinth.

I think Neil got some good shots of most things so we can look forward to seeing them.

I think you can do a quick bath with drain unclogger to get rid of the natural anodizing, I'll give it a go with some solution you suggested, I want to build a unique TTi.

Thanks Toft!

[Syph007]

Thanks guys, it's nice to give it an airing with people who appreciate a good mod.
Now the scales need a good rubdown with acatone to get all the finger prints off.

Sounds like your tools are coming along well Steve, hopefully when it's finished it will be so nice as to distract you from clobbering me over the head.

The scales were electro anodised in 5g/L Ammonium Sulphate solution at around 18-20V using a variable power supply.
Then i did them i didn't realise that titanium should be lightly etched to remove the natural oxide layer so my experiments were unsuccessful until i realised there must be some kind of barrier inhibiting anodising but with no idea how to chemically remove it i just sanded down the front face and tried again with pretty good results.
I'm still not sure what is needed to etch titanium but freshly cut titanium should take the anodising fine. Let me know if you want a bit more infomation on exactly how i built my anodising set-up.

Surely not the Louvre, more likely the Tate Modern, right next to the pile of bricks and the pile of rubbish on a plinth.

I think Neil got some good shots of most things so we can look forward to seeing them.

I think you can do a quick bath with drain unclogger to get rid of the natural anodizing, I'll give it a go with some solution you suggested, I want to build a unique TTi.

Thanks Toft!

Hey Metro, when I was first trying to strip aluminum oxide I tried draino, not a great result.  Left some brown scum and was sloooow.  I switched to pure lye, sodium hydroxide from home hardware and that stuff worked like a dream.  I dont know if its the same for Ti oxide but I would skip drano, its not pure, and has other crud in it to mess up the reaction.

[Metropolicity]

Thanks guys, it's nice to give it an airing with people who appreciate a good mod.
Now the scales need a good rubdown with acatone to get all the finger prints off.

Sounds like your tools are coming along well Steve, hopefully when it's finished it will be so nice as to distract you from clobbering me over the head.

The scales were electro anodised in 5g/L Ammonium Sulphate solution at around 18-20V using a variable power supply.
Then i did them i didn't realise that titanium should be lightly etched to remove the natural oxide layer so my experiments were unsuccessful until i realised there must be some kind of barrier inhibiting anodising but with no idea how to chemically remove it i just sanded down the front face and tried again with pretty good results.
I'm still not sure what is needed to etch titanium but freshly cut titanium should take the anodising fine. Let me know if you want a bit more infomation on exactly how i built my anodising set-up.

Surely not the Louvre, more likely the Tate Modern, right next to the pile of bricks and the pile of rubbish on a plinth.

I think Neil got some good shots of most things so we can look forward to seeing them.

I think you can do a quick bath with drain unclogger to get rid of the natural anodizing, I'll give it a go with some solution you suggested, I want to build a unique TTi.

Thanks Toft!

Hey Metro, when I was first trying to strip aluminum oxide I tried draino, not a great result.  Left some brown scum and was sloooow.  I switched to pure lye, sodium hydroxide from home hardware and that stuff worked like a dream.  I dont know if its the same for Ti oxide but I would skip drano, its not pure, and has other crud in it to mess up the reaction.

Good to know! It's probably over kill, just need to get rid of the thin layer of oxide.

Thanks!

Now...back to the drooling over this Damacus!

[Montetobuso]

I would really like to know about the anodizing in detail; I tried to anodize y TTi with some luck, but didn't really sucseede.. I used an array of 9V batteries, and I googeld the voltage to use
to get a bright blue, and it said 40-45... I got that color, but only in the places my electrode touched the metal (tried to do a bath-thingy). How can you get a bright blue with only 18-20 V?
Amazing mod by the way

[NKlamerus]

Still looks great IMO

[jlwatso1]

Looks awesome! Nice piece of work! 

[ReamerPunch]

This is absolutely stunning! 

[Gareth]

This is absolutely stunning! 

It's a cracker isn't it?   I've seen it in real life and, if possible, it looks even better in the hand.

[hiraethus]

 

It's really very nice indeed.