Wenger Esquire Titanium blue

[PTRSAK]

Heading out to dinner tonight and I (naturally) want something in my pocket.
Trouble is that almost anything I have got that is a little bit classy looking is also a little bit lethal looking.
But who could take offense at a mini SAK?  I have a couple of Vic classics and Wenger Esquires lying around but they are all a little beat up looking.

No worries, I have some offcuts of Al6V4 Titanium sheet laying around and there is a couple of strips that are just the perfect width to make a "Tiox" Esquire.

Damn this stuff is hard. Don't have any cobolt drills in just the right size for the pins so was sharpening a HSS drill after every hole....  all 8 of them.

Grabbed a couple of 24V LiPO batteries from my Trex 600 and a bottle of Rust Kill (phosphoric acid) and got a nice electric blue anodizing.  (different colours for different voltages)

Anyway, it was just a quickie and there are a couple of tooling marks, but it looks smurf-loads better than red plastic.  also about half the thickness.

Also in one of the Pix is a Dept Store $12 liner-lock folder I made Ti scales for and rainbow anodized.  Yes it really does look that pretty.

The only downside is that the polished surface is a fingerprint magnet and because the "colour" is really diffraction in the oxide layer, and the different colours are actually different thickness, a fingerprint actually shows up in a slightly different colour.  Might try sandblasting the next ones for a matt surface.

[Waterlander]

That's pretty neat! 

Howabout a little shirt/pocketclip?

[PTRSAK]

Pocket clip/money clip... yeah I could do that because I'm not 100% happy with the peening and I had to put some 2.25mm stock in a drill and file it down to make the 0.072" pins (and that never comes out "just right"). will grab a length of 72 thou brass rod during the week.

But like I said this was a quickie... started at 1pm and I was leaving to go out to dinner at 5pm.

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Good looking sak's there mate