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What's Timascus?
What's Timascus?
Titanium damascus(timascus) also known as Mokuti or TiMoku. It's made from different grades of titanium or titanium alloys. Generally, titanium damascus/timascus/Mokuti is processed by multi-material (pure titanium or titanium alloys), fused by forging (physical fusion), and the block, rods&bars and plate billets are processed by twisting, extruding, straightening, cutting, polishing and other processes. The billets are heated or anodized, and finally show brilliant colors (red,yellow,blue,golden,orange,pink the color affected by temperature) and beautiful patterns. Since only the approximate direction and the thickness of layers of the patterns can be controlled during processing.So each timascus crafts are unique.
Timascus advantages?
DURABILITY: Timascus made from titanium and it's alloys,same advantages as titanium,hard to bending, cracking, rust, heat and corrosion resistance,sweat resistance
LIGHTWEIGHT: Timascus is extremely light weight.Density 4.51g/cm3 same as titanium.
SAFE: Timascus is perfectly safe for you to wear, same as titanium edc.
Color: The color of each piece is unique.
Consisting of two or more titanium alloys (currently CP and 6AL4V), Timascus is corrosion resistant, non-magnetic, and lightweight. It has the beautiful, upscale look of steel damascus without any of the disadvantages of steel that can disappoint some knife makers and collectors.
The timascus is made by placing these two different alloys of titanium into a metal box, filling the enclosure with inert gas and applying both heat and pressure to have the two alloys to forge laminated together.
hen coloring, the current formulation seems to show more contrast using heat rather than anodizing. All current safe coloring techniques can be applied to Timascus. Future alloy combinations will have different color profiles. (It is only meant for knife furniture as titanium does not form carbides and doesn't harden enough for a sound blade.)
working Timascus is essentially the same as any other titanium alloy except when milling. The blended types of titanium have different hardnesses sandwiched throughout the barstock. The varying hard and soft areas can cause wear on the cutting edges of tools. Use round-cornered cutters as they hold up better under machining.
Timascus is a beautiful fusion of old world decorative techniques and modern metal-smithing.
