[DerekC]

Happy to see you were successful in your cut.

I worked 5-years in the Saw-Department of a Forge-Shop that produced rings and forgings for aerospace applications (up to 120-inches in diameter.)

Typically (as in almost always) we cut Titanium (6-4, CP, 6-2-4-2, 8-1-1, etc) with abrasive cut-off saws. I believe we did cut it with band-saws on very rare occasions like when the billet-diameter was oversize (greater than 12-inch diameter) too large for the abrasive saws.

We used wet-abrasive saws driven by 250 HP electric motors, so each cut was fairly quick (seconds to a bit over a minute.) There were "special-blend" abrasive blades used for cutting it (titanium) though our "General-Purpose" abrasive blades would work in a pinch, but not as well (straightness-of-cut and speed.)

As best I recall, when using a band saw, we had recommended feed-rates and speeds for the various grades of titanium, but it went slow and was hard on the blades.

After the saw-department, I worked in Inspection/Quality-Control a few more years, then several years more as supervisor in their Heat Treating department.