Not For Sale (Just Showing Off!)
This took ages…
It’s not for sale unfortunately (only did one of them as an experiment).
But thought you’d like to see it. It’s a deep-polished version of the PryMal™ – Titanium Pry-Bar.
Nothing much else to say – just enjoy the photos… 🙂
Oh, and yes…. it’s does look this good in real-life! 😀
Neat. Here is a wish: Could you tell us a bit about finishing titanium, how you do it, what it takes in general (tools, machines) … with or without pictures.
I forgot to say: We have heard lots about your tumbler, of course, so you can leave that out. But you didn’t do this in the tumbler, for sure!?
It takes alot of hard work to polish Titanium like this. He probably spent 30min at a buffer.
Yes 30 min or more and most likely alot of ouches and maybe swear words every time the titanium got a wee bit too hot for the hands…
Yes indeed Mike …it gets so hot so fast it’s crazy.
That’s part of the reason it takes so long …waiting for the piece to cool down a lot of the time.
Also, when it gets really, REALLY hot then it ruins the buffing wheel in the blink of an eye …got to throw it out. Gone through a lot of them trying to get the polishing right.
And, yes, lots of burnt fingers too!
Yep, Brad pretty much hit it there …30-min+ for this one.
I’ll see if I can to a photo or video explanation of the polishing soon for you.
Okay, that would be cool. (Tasteless joke about burnt fingers with barbeque sauce deleted.)
Employ some poor soul and just incorporate the labour price onto the polished item?
I think you just volunteered yourself! 🙂
It’s also a survival tool! Any sun reflection off that can be seen for miles. Now I want one! 😉
Ha-haa …yeah, you could do some sort of morse-code-sun-reflecting thing!