Here's one of my forged titanium knives/letter openers. Color from torch heat. Really shows how well titanium can be forged. It was scrap material so no clue if pure or alloy.

That's really pretty Randy! Nice colors!

If it was easy to forge it probably was one of the CP alloys---they tend to be softer than steel at forging temperatures.

I've never forged any titanium that was softer than forging steel. Usually when done the anvil and hammer face look like they were lightly sand blasted. But some works different as in some will split open and others, like the one above look just like steel when done. Most get an elephant skin to them and I love that texture.

I am developing a love hate relationship with titanium of late.

Randy,
It may be worth a bit of time to get some known alloys from Ebay and compare that to the stuff you have access to as scrap. I have found CP to be rather forgiving at the anvil. Some alloys are very difficulty to forge...unless you need the strength (or can get them cheap) I see little use for them over CP and 6AL-4V alloy.

Ric

Ninety-five percent of the time my titanium has been free so I'll work with it no matter what alloy it is. I love it! :P

I lucked into a bunch of CP when I first started using it and now have a tendency to let my apprentice have the alloy bits as his arm is about 30 years younger than mine...

Here's another one I made. Just sold it on etsy.

Titanium blades are often known as,can be blade distinct application, all-purpose or chiselling blades, no matter. The titanium blade metal covering is the same covering found on space supplements,jet search engines and even surgical equipment...

So? what's great for one application can be really terrible for another. Your Formula 1 race car makes a truly terrible dump truck! They use depleted uranium for kinetic tank killing rounds---does NOT make a good knife though!

I never worked with Ti hot. I did make a dive knife out of grade 2 Ti, then i anodised it. I was discouraged to make a Ti knife hot. I read that it would make the properties of the metal worse then what it already is.

It tends to absorb gasses and become brittle when worked hot; so fast and furious forging is suggested!

 

CP 1&2 are dead soft at forging temp which helps