You Timothy Dyck are a superfine craftsman, I haven't seen any better and I am 71 years of older age in times when blacksmiths were still about. All credit to you Mr.Tim.
I just watched Will Stelter (Alec Steele) snap a similar shard off his pipe tomahawk handle. On May 14th in '68 for my 6th birthday present I forged a hatchet head with my Dad watching to learn. When he offered to help seat the handle of our second and last prefab hickory handle Dad let out a couple words in early dairy farmer, prevacuum pump I thought. The look on his face backing that sliver from his palm went directly into permanent memory. He calmly walked out side saying nothing coherent and fired that handle at the next train that passed our Agassiz, BC farm. We settled on a temporary yellow cedar handle to have something to hang on to what we had made. After many years of, go on smell my hatchet, never could get around to replacing it. Funny how a couple broken handles can bring up an old memory. Thanks, I appreciate the coincidental reminder. Peace.
I am very fascinated with blacksmithing and follow a few other blacksmiths on TH-cam. I love the fact that you don't just play with regular steel. Love the titanium knife series using zirconium and now this beautiful ax. It always brings a smile to my face seeing a notification from you channel on my phone. Keep up the awesome work 😊
Titanium in this case would be great for backpacking, And because its lighter you get more control and less strain on your arm, Also no rust. yes, A good steel with a good heat treat can be better edge retention then titanium, but axes don't need to have a pristine edge. So i agree with this axe, but Ill never have a titanium knife.
Carson Hague backpacking requires carrying some weight in my mind. An axe that size is maybe 1.5 lbs. Personally, I’d rather have a hatchet that takes a bite instead of bounces off wood. To each their own though
@@andrewkeeton3627 Yeah true, But of course the titanium axe would need near perfect edge to be effective, But In the end, Its a titanium axe dammit, Its pretty damn cool!
Incredibly interesting video. Reminds me of the 5,000 yr old copper axe recovered in September 1991 . When the video of that axe was aired on TV everyone was saying it was a bronze axe and I was thinking it was a copper axe. I was correct from day one. I was surprised that the Ti hatchet still had an edge after Tim's demonstration.
@@Jd-zl7mn It isn't the weight (or lack of) that is the problem. Modern Ti framing hammers have shown lighter weight isn't an issue. The real problem is that Ti doesn't hold an edge worth crap, and for an axe that is a bit of a problem.
I love purple heart. If you ever want to experiment put a little heat on the wood with a torch then sand it back smooth. you don't want to blacken the wood just enough to darken and raise the grain. It will turn bright purple if done right. If you ever turn any on a lathe you can turn the machine up fast and use some 1000 grit or better and the friction will burn it and turn it as purple as can be. love the axe it should hold a edge very well thank you for your upload. I am new to this channel but I like what I seen so far thanks. keep up the good work.
I'll bear that in mind thanks, I always look at the purpleheart blanks at my local woodshop but I've never picked any up - but now I'll be sure to try this.
Respect to you for a fabulous looking axe! Many years ago I worked for IMI in the UK, they were Titanium makers and I made myself a wrecking bar out of the stuff. I could not believe that a metal that was as light as aluminium could be so hard and challenging to forge. Thanks for making the video, I loved watching it and chuckled a fair bit whilst you were forging and grinding it because I remember how long it took me on my very simple job!...good luck to you!👍
Not really that safe swinging an axe with a person in front, you never know your final destination your partner may slip the handle with that axe sticks to your face.
Everyone keeps talking about the weight being a problem. The real problem here is that titanium only has the edge retention of stainless steel, which is weaker than carbon steel. It works but is it great for an axe?...eh, carbon steel is the way to go.
That's what caught my attention. Forged in Fire just had a 'challenge' that included titanium and the judges all said it cannot be 'hardened'. I wouldn't know, I just like the show but aside from being pretty it does beg the question how useful this axe will be?
Many higher end stainless steel have better edge retention than carbon steel. In this application, toughness would be the disadvantage of both stainless and titanium. However, some specialized semi-stainless steels such as CPM 3V are far tougher than carbon steels such as 1095 and have better edge retention.
Sure, but when you are going on those 945 hour hikes with a 100 pound backpack it makes a difference. You know, when you decide to go on one of those hikes, where you say to your wife you are going to make, it or you are going to die trying. Retreating is not an option.
@@dnciskkk9037 We already get the lightweight purpose. It is a matter of making the baddest ass axe ever that the discussion is about. AKA we want lightweight and edge retention.
"it feels so good... It feels so smoothe. its the smoothest ive ever felt wood. I guess because its so hard." while he's stroking it.. lmfao... I cant be the only one who thought this.. but even if i am............ ^^ Thats what she said...
A decade or so ago, my wife, always looking for cool and unusual presents for me, got me a titanium crowbar 24" in length. Incredibly light, so very easy to carry. Then I went to use it. No. Nope. It had no 'ass', no weight behind it to help you do the work. It worked less well than a 12" steel crowbar would have worked. Certain tools need a certain amount of weight, to make sure they have enough 'ass' to get the job done. An axe is one of those kindsa tool...
For a small hatchet like that Titanium would be fine, it's for small branch and tree clearing and gives good control in tighter spaces. Now for a full size wood cutting axe? Hell no, steel all the way, you need that extra heft to split large logs cleanly.
For a small hatchet like this you don't need it to be very heavy. besides the purple heart is heavy enough to still give the axe enough heft to be nice to use.
As a 2nd gen jeweler,I'm amazed by the machines that do all the pounding.Thinking 200 yrs ago all hammering was done by hand,I wish he showed the reheating as I was wondering about it.Great job bro,Make a knife w all the lovely scraps please!
I would recommend a colab with Alex Steele, formerly from the UK, now residing in Montana, USA. You both could make Sweet sparks and cool stuff together!
It's a shame it's so small. Titanium is lighter than steel. Imagine how massive a 3.5 pound head could be! You could make a big fat splitter with a crazy light weight for swinging.
A titanium axe with a CPM 3V insert at the edge would be very interesting. High strength to weight ratio due to titanium. High edge toughness due to steel edge.
Worked on F-22 Engine Bay access panels (Titanium). Had the pleasure of working with engineering in R&D as a mechanic on the lower panel contouring. It was painfully tedious to re-contour titanium without any sparking took hours and hours to reshape 3"x5" area!
To be honest that was pretty scary while you stand facing each other and swinging axes. If anything would happens with hand or axe... Whoa hospital in best case scenario.
you know some of us never worn a bicycle helmet either. The safety police is everywhere man. I mean i guess a head could fly off if he sucks at building axes but i think you are just being silly. cant see how 40 people agree that it was dangerous.
WooHoo ! Awesome work and awesome end product sir! Also love the axe head design... Yeah, we all have those days... just keep pushing onward LOL Thanx for sharing
Very cool project and result, but I feel like you forgot to show the most important part from the test, which was hold the edge actually held up on the Ti axe. A lot of metals can take an edge good enough to chop through wood decently a few times, probably even mild steel, but taking a keen edge and more importantly keeping that edge during use is (as I'm sure you're already well aware of ) the most important aspect of what makes carbon/tool steels the main choice for axes, probably followed by either price of manufacturing and/or price of the raw material materials. Could ya give us an update on how the cutting edge is holding up compared to your usual axes? Thanks for sharing, this was a fun project to watch. It also would pretty cool to have seen the axe electrically or heat anodized a nice, deep peacock blue 😉
A light weight axe head seems self defeating - the purpose of an axe is to maximize the weight behind the edge while maximizing the toughness of the edge. Titanium alloy has the toughness but the mass would be bit light to use it. A tungsten alloy axe would be interesting however.
Best reasons I can see would be to carry the lighter hatchet on a long hiking and camping trek and it would stay sharper for longer. Oh yeah,reason 3 would be more rust resistant.
I see no benefit to a lighter full size axe head. Less weight, one would have work twice as hard to accomplish the work of useing heavier steel. In other words, with a titanium axe you would burn more calories and only have half the work done.
Everytime i watch wranglerstar video i get the impression that he doesnt know what hes doing, but just tries really hard to make everybody else believe he does
It'd be very interesting to know which Titanium alloy you used for this project. Alpha, Beta, AlphaBeta? Ti-10V-2Fe-3Al? Ti-6Al-4V? Excellent work and great use of the materials!!
Tim thats awesome piece of work, now we have seen the toughest and simple but so gorgeous axe on planet so far, every man wishing for that, gud job man, from Philippines
I felt the pucker-factor there too. Both right-handed so even just a couple of feet offset (each take the corner to their right) would have taken out a significant portion of the risk. Also, making note of doing so would help educate anyone who watched the video. But WOW! that looks beautiful.
tip for you in the future when you hang another axe you can hit it while holding it in the air to sink the wedge or just drop it upside-down on the wedge to seat it at the end
Is this a titanium alloy? The USSR built a submarine out of titanium in the 80's, still holds the record for speed and dive dept, check project 661 Anchar.
I usualy end up just gluing the chunk that broke off back on, never had a failure and my axes get used hard. For a youtube presentation however its different. Its also purple, so any fissure would be more visible. Great work!
It appears so, but I am curious if the melting temps of steel and titanium are dissimilar. If he needed to bring the forge up to a higher temp to reach critical mass on the titanium I would assume it would stay hotter longer.
While you do need a higher temperature to effectively forge titanium you also need an inert gas that isnt nitrogen to keep the titanium from becoming brittle from oxidation to keep its integrity. It is nice to see someone make an axe and a light hammer out of titanium how ever.
You Timothy Dyck are a superfine craftsman, I haven't seen any better and I am 71 years of older age in times when blacksmiths were still about. All credit to you Mr.Tim.
“It feels so smooth because its so hard”
- Thats what she said!
Ricardo Smarts Much hilariously
My is English is such good too! Lol
much wow
doge doge doge doge doge doge doge
Says it as he's stroking it too
Innuendo Bingo gold - stroking his purple wood shaft
I just watched Will Stelter (Alec Steele) snap a similar shard off his pipe tomahawk handle. On May 14th in '68 for my 6th birthday present I forged a hatchet head with my Dad watching to learn. When he offered to help seat the handle of our second and last prefab hickory handle Dad let out a couple words in early dairy farmer, prevacuum pump I thought. The look on his face backing that sliver from his palm went directly into permanent memory. He calmly walked out side saying nothing coherent and fired that handle at the next train that passed our Agassiz, BC farm. We settled on a temporary yellow cedar handle to have something to hang on to what we had made. After many years of, go on smell my hatchet, never could get around to replacing it. Funny how a couple broken handles can bring up an old memory. Thanks, I appreciate the coincidental reminder. Peace.
I am very fascinated with blacksmithing and follow a few other blacksmiths on TH-cam. I love the fact that you don't just play with regular steel. Love the titanium knife series using zirconium and now this beautiful ax. It always brings a smile to my face seeing a notification from you channel on my phone. Keep up the awesome work 😊
I'm not really into axes, but even I gotta admit that this was is beautiful.
Who taught Matthew McConaughey how to make an axe?
you mean Sarah Jessica Parker
@@void3923 Parker cut her hair short & started using skin cream!...
@@void3923 you mean Bert
@@mrsir2378 like Bert as in Bert and Ernie XD
Alright...
It’s like Matthew McConaughey and Mark Zuckerberg had a baby 😂
and one of them had an affair with chills
@@jameschambers3981 Burger King foot lettuce.
An ugly young Pete Townsend.
And Woody Harelsson was born.
Yea.... On the monster truck rally bathroom floor
Very nice work. Titanium is my most favorite metal
*stay tuned for the titanium sledgehammer*
Axes are heavy tools for a reason
Andrew Keeton
It would probably be a good slitting wedge because of the durability but wouldn’t be a good splitting maul.
Titanium in this case would be great for backpacking, And because its lighter you get more control and less strain on your arm, Also no rust.
yes, A good steel with a good heat treat can be better edge retention then titanium, but axes don't need to have a pristine edge. So i agree with this axe, but Ill never have a titanium knife.
Carson Hague backpacking requires carrying some weight in my mind. An axe that size is maybe 1.5 lbs. Personally, I’d rather have a hatchet that takes a bite instead of bounces off wood. To each their own though
@@andrewkeeton3627 Yeah true, But of course the titanium axe would need near perfect edge to be effective, But In the end, Its a titanium axe dammit, Its pretty damn cool!
@@Soggyliquid Get a saw instead at that point. I have a Sikly GomBoy, and love it.
Incredibly interesting video. Reminds me of the 5,000 yr old copper axe recovered in September 1991 . When the video of that axe was aired on TV everyone was saying it was a bronze axe and I was thinking it was a copper axe. I was correct from day one. I was surprised that the Ti hatchet still had an edge after Tim's demonstration.
I think what makes the titanium ax better is the craftsmanship you managed, otherwise it's just a lighter ax that won't corrode easily. Nice video!
Yeah and not chop well. There is a reason why the end is heavy.
@@Jd-zl7mn It isn't the weight (or lack of) that is the problem. Modern Ti framing hammers have shown lighter weight isn't an issue. The real problem is that Ti doesn't hold an edge worth crap, and for an axe that is a bit of a problem.
@@PhotoBobBarker titanium isn't as great as people say. Frames it's great for. Aluminum is showing the greatest potential among metals.
Really beautiful work. The grain of the purple heart matches the curve of the handle so perfectly.
Subbed.
Meet Timothy, the man who really does have an axe to grind.
Good work, IMPRESSIVE!
I love purple heart. If you ever want to experiment put a little heat on the wood with a torch then sand it back smooth. you don't want to blacken the wood just enough to darken and raise the grain. It will turn bright purple if done right. If you ever turn any on a lathe you can turn the machine up fast and use some 1000 grit or better and the friction will burn it and turn it as purple as can be. love the axe it should hold a edge very well thank you for your upload. I am new to this channel but I like what I seen so far thanks. keep up the good work.
I'll bear that in mind thanks, I always look at the purpleheart blanks at my local woodshop but I've never picked any up - but now I'll be sure to try this.
Good Lord thst ti axe head is absolutely gorgeous. The color is so unique and amazing.
That is sweet! Loved the cut test👍 im sure it was crazy to work with. Awesome work my friend 👍👍
check out my ax
Respect to you for a fabulous looking axe! Many years ago I worked for IMI in the UK, they were Titanium makers and I made myself a wrecking bar out of the stuff. I could not believe that a metal that was as light as aluminium could be so hard and challenging to forge. Thanks for making the video, I loved watching it and chuckled a fair bit whilst you were forging and grinding it because I remember how long it took me on my very simple job!...good luck to you!👍
Titanium 4.506 g/cm3 Alumium 2.7 g/cm3
@@heinrichkrull2523 yes, but it is stronger than aluminium so a same strength part made out of titanium is about as heavy as one made from aluminium.
Not really that safe swinging an axe with a person in front, you never know your final destination your partner may slip the handle with that axe sticks to your face.
Good thought.
Thinking the same during the test...great way to see how they function as tomahawks...by accident.
pussy
I am glad I am not the only one thinking this thought.
i was expecting the worst, thanks goodness it didn't happen. sweaty palm and axe goes flying. Is axe not a word? auto correct tells me, it has no "e"
The rhythmic sound of that power hammer is super relaxing.
i remember watching you do demos at Fort Langley almost 10 years ago
Bing, with a lightbulb too. The now extinct Albion Ferry way too many times to play at Langley Airport. Can't quite place the year yet.
You are a man of many talents good job thank you for reassuring methat there are younger men in the world that care
Everyone keeps talking about the weight being a problem. The real problem here is that titanium only has the edge retention of stainless steel, which is weaker than carbon steel. It works but is it great for an axe?...eh, carbon steel is the way to go.
That's what caught my attention. Forged in Fire just had a 'challenge' that included titanium and the judges all said it cannot be 'hardened'. I wouldn't know, I just like the show but aside from being pretty it does beg the question how useful this axe will be?
Many higher end stainless steel have better edge retention than carbon steel. In this application, toughness would be the disadvantage of both stainless and titanium. However, some specialized semi-stainless steels such as CPM 3V are far tougher than carbon steels such as 1095 and have better edge retention.
Sure, but when you are going on those 945 hour hikes with a 100 pound backpack it makes a difference. You know, when you decide to go on one of those hikes, where you say to your wife you are going to make, it or you are going to die trying. Retreating is not an option.
Of course, yet I am referring to generic stainless for the average person reading.@@leibniz2024
@@dnciskkk9037 We already get the lightweight purpose. It is a matter of making the baddest ass axe ever that the discussion is about. AKA we want lightweight and edge retention.
Love watching someone who is a true craftsman working. Nice video.
Great to see the 'serious shut down' machine in action :-) You can't beat an axe when it's made from Tim-tanium :-) Beautiful work.
Awesome video. Thank you for making 1 build 1 video. It grinds my gears seeing a 7 part series of a hammer build.
"it feels so good... It feels so smoothe. its the smoothest ive ever felt wood. I guess because its so hard."
while he's stroking it..
lmfao...
I cant be the only one who thought this.. but even if i am............ ^^ Thats what she said...
🤣me to
Hahaha my thought exactly
I screen recorded that, imma post it tmro and let the hearts roll in 😎
Joshua Stagnitto 😭😭
Man i had my resrrvations and benifit of the doubt untill he said that.
Ahh - craftsmanship like this is so satisfying to watch. And that axe is beautiful.
A decade or so ago, my wife, always looking for cool and unusual presents for me, got me a titanium crowbar 24" in length. Incredibly light, so very easy to carry.
Then I went to use it.
No.
Nope.
It had no 'ass', no weight behind it to help you do the work. It worked less well than a 12" steel crowbar would have worked.
Certain tools need a certain amount of weight, to make sure they have enough 'ass' to get the job done.
An axe is one of those kindsa tool...
For a small hatchet like that Titanium would be fine, it's for small branch and tree clearing and gives good control in tighter spaces.
Now for a full size wood cutting axe? Hell no, steel all the way, you need that extra heft to split large logs cleanly.
For a small hatchet like this you don't need it to be very heavy. besides the purple heart is heavy enough to still give the axe enough heft to be nice to use.
Ha. Way to blame your tools. Time to get a gym membership, lightweight.
@@yourdad9168 You've obviously never used a titanium crowbar.
It's like admantium in Dwarf Fortress. Can be razor-sharp and is nigh-indestructible but is like hitting people with styrofoam.
Such a joy to see a master craftsman at work, if it were me, I would keep that titanium axe for ever!
A long handle would look so sick especially in the Purple Heart
THAT TITANIUM AX IS WICKED AWSOME FROM AX HEAD TO THE PURPLE HART HANDLE IT'S --1--BAD ASS AX 🤯👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I'ma be that guy: 16" handle means hatchet to me, not axe... but you do you dude.
I am with you on that. With that said, it isn't any less impressive!
Me too Che' . But any one hand axe is a hatchet to me .
Oh well most people are so damn stupid anything with a handle and a blade on the end of it is an axe
@@6061 no fair, I thought that snark beat out logic every time!
@@chemusvandergeek1209 it does but you need more people. At least a 2:1 ratio.
Tim,
Another great video. Thank you for taking time to film, edit and post this video.
I like how Tim makes a beautiful perfect notch and the other dude just bashes it over and over until it snaps
One of my favorite things about titanium is the bright white sparks it's awesome
11:12 for him stroking a hard woody and saying it feels so good
Lord Feish oh nigga you gay
As a 2nd gen jeweler,I'm amazed by the machines that do all the pounding.Thinking 200 yrs ago all hammering was done by hand,I wish he showed the reheating as I was wondering about it.Great job bro,Make a knife w all the lovely scraps please!
That looks like such a great tool for bushcraft, the lighter weight is so appealing since my axe is usually the heaviest thing in my pack. 👍👍👍
Use a tomohawk
very good and satisfying to watch the molten almost titanium take shape
I would recommend a colab with Alex Steele, formerly from the UK, now residing in Montana, USA. You both could make Sweet sparks and cool stuff together!
I second that
Coolest Collab name ever >>> the Steele Dyck Stump Buster
Yeah one video with this guy is like a whole month of content for Alex lol. Im subbed to Alex, he's good, but man does he stretch out his projects.
This guy out here hand crafting epics n legendaries
It's a shame it's so small. Titanium is lighter than steel. Imagine how massive a 3.5 pound head could be! You could make a big fat splitter with a crazy light weight for swinging.
Even when it comes to watches, titanium over stainless steel makes a world of difference.
Jonny boy Do you print via lasers and titanium powder or cut masses of titanium?
Jonny boy how expensive would it be to get a trans rebuilt with titanium or too brittle?
@Jonny boy Get a bigger "battle-axe" head and it would be truly impressive.
@@robertpicton1
I'm going to agree with Connor here.
And that's the most expensive axe out there... Nice job, mate. It's a beautiful and excellent tool.
A titanium axe with a CPM 3V insert at the edge would be very interesting. High strength to weight ratio due to titanium. High edge toughness due to steel edge.
yeah titanium doesn't like to keep a edge
Worked on F-22 Engine Bay access panels (Titanium).
Had the pleasure of working with engineering in R&D as a mechanic on the lower panel contouring.
It was painfully tedious to re-contour titanium without any sparking took hours and hours to reshape 3"x5" area!
youtube watch break down, 5% gaming, 5% Russian cooking vids, 90% metal grinding compilations
Sounds like a axe many collectors would love to have !
To be honest that was pretty scary while you stand facing each other and swinging axes. If anything would happens with hand or axe... Whoa hospital in best case scenario.
Best case scenario is nothing goes wrong. Which is what happened...
you know some of us never worn a bicycle helmet either. The safety police is everywhere man. I mean i guess a head could fly off if he sucks at building axes but i think you are just being silly. cant see how 40 people agree that it was dangerous.
@@jvmiller1995 I've seen enough people lose their grip while swinging tools that I ain't ever standing in front of their swing.
@@jvmiller1995 I don't know about you, but I never let anyone stand in the line of the axe. Doesn't take any extra effort to avoid the area.
WooHoo ! Awesome work and awesome end product sir! Also love the axe head design... Yeah, we all have those days... just keep pushing onward LOL Thanx for sharing
the music is so much better in this than other black smith vids
Why is this channel not bigger? This guy has charisma and is funny with metal chops too?
Very cool project and result, but I feel like you forgot to show the most important part from the test, which was hold the edge actually held up on the Ti axe. A lot of metals can take an edge good enough to chop through wood decently a few times, probably even mild steel, but taking a keen edge and more importantly keeping that edge during use is (as I'm sure you're already well aware of ) the most important aspect of what makes carbon/tool steels the main choice for axes, probably followed by either price of manufacturing and/or price of the raw material materials. Could ya give us an update on how the cutting edge is holding up compared to your usual axes? Thanks for sharing, this was a fun project to watch. It also would pretty cool to have seen the axe electrically or heat anodized a nice, deep peacock blue 😉
Yes i wish to know toasty too!!!
Please! that was the one thing I was looking forward to was how the edges held up!
2:40 awesome blues man
A light weight axe head seems self defeating - the purpose of an axe is to maximize the weight behind the edge while maximizing the toughness of the edge. Titanium alloy has the toughness but the mass would be bit light to use it. A tungsten alloy axe would be interesting however.
Best reasons I can see would be to carry the lighter hatchet on a long hiking and camping trek and it would stay sharper for longer. Oh yeah,reason 3 would be more rust resistant.
I see no benefit to a lighter full size axe head. Less weight, one would have work twice as hard to accomplish the work of useing heavier steel. In other words, with a titanium axe you would burn more calories and only have half the work done.
FASCINATING PROJECT! SPLENDID videography and production values!
The amount of hours put in, that is a thousand dollar hatchet, at least
Too nice to use as a tool. Looks awesome…..two thumbs up👍👍
You should send it to WranglerStar he will give you the real decision on a titanium axe
He has really gone downhill imo. Still a good channel, but his focus shifted so much and for me it isn't a good shift.
@@shimba90 Watch out, he'll ban you if he reads this =]
@@dorusie5 oh shit, didn't think about that part...
@@dorusie5 He blocked me a long time ago, but it doesn't seem to have any impact. He just won't receive messages when I post to his videos, I guess.
Everytime i watch wranglerstar video i get the impression that he doesnt know what hes doing, but just tries really hard to make everybody else believe he does
a true Nord would be proud to own that axe !
It'd be very interesting to know which Titanium alloy you used for this project.
Alpha, Beta, AlphaBeta? Ti-10V-2Fe-3Al? Ti-6Al-4V?
Excellent work and great use of the materials!!
Wtf 😱😱
Tim thats awesome piece of work, now we have seen the toughest and simple but so gorgeous axe on planet so far, every man wishing for that, gud job man, from Philippines
If you thought that was hard, try to make an axe head from tungsten. Nearly impossible.
What about a tungsten alloy
Or mercury
It's literally impossible unless you could heat your forge to 5kF
It looks like that space shuttle foam when it's hot. Its neat how the boarders stay darker.
Does titanium hold an edge?
Ehhhh...not as good as carbon steel.
Very satisfying from the axe to the semiconductor somethings should not change
Swinging axes one handed while facing eachother........ safety police A C T I V A T E D
I felt the pucker-factor there too. Both right-handed so even just a couple of feet offset (each take the corner to their right) would have taken out a significant portion of the risk. Also, making note of doing so would help educate anyone who watched the video.
But WOW! that looks beautiful.
Would they have wiped their bums properly?
@Wroger Wroger TLDR buddy
@Wroger Wroger what's up your ass man ? 😂
Titanium bounces better than steel Amazing material.
Should've used ash or hickory for the handle and made a purple heart wedge or blood wood wedge.
Dustin Chambers ash is too hard for a handle
It's not build for purpose obviously so what he chose is much better then plain hickory that every axe already has
Fantastic axe and awesome music!
(1:12) feel like I would have grabbed that with my hand ✋
Me too.....I could almost see him go to grab it :)
Only once though.
Lmao. I thought the same thing.
Same >_
@@anonymous11011 actually twice because you have another hand
Hardening the titanium would make this a perfect hiking hatchet. I would definitely use it.
I was waiting for one of you to lose your grip and then we would have really known who the winner was
Swinging axes standing right in front of each other, had me start my prayers, "Oh Lord keep everyone safe ..."!
From what planet?
Earth.
Titanium is one of the most common elements on our beautiful planet, but the processing is brutal.
well, technically all heavy elements came from the core of massive stars
That axe is stunning, amazing craftsmanship.
First i think: No way he could do this.
Me sees: White sparks.. THIS GOTTA BE REAL!!
Awesome axe! Terrific work! Is a master piece!
You should have made a floppy handle for more kinetic energy
I like where this is going...
worxharder titanium flail is where I see this going
@maoristereo th-cam.com/video/Aj-C39pe1-s/w-d-xo.html
For some reason when I watch your videos, it reminds me if Iron man 1 when tony was in the cave.
I wonder if a dragon axe would be better than the titanium axe
Yor are very good and very best iron worker . My congratulations my friend
I would have liked to have seen side by side footage of the steel axe vs titanium axe. How much faster were you both with the titanium one? Great vid!
Ya that would have been a good way to slice it! Nice idea.
@Elena Thanks! :D Haha it's nothing fancy. It's just OPI black onyx, which you can most likely get anywhere.
tip for you in the future when you hang another axe you can hit it while holding it in the air to sink the wedge or just drop it upside-down on the wedge to seat it at the end
Is this a titanium alloy? The USSR built a submarine out of titanium in the 80's, still holds the record for speed and dive dept, check project 661 Anchar.
Some quality people we have here. Pleasure to watch mate
If it ain't hickory, it's a decoration.
In Europe se use oak. We don't have hickory here
There are woods that work well, or even better than hickory, just not as readily available as hickory
I usualy end up just gluing the chunk that broke off back on, never had a failure and my axes get used hard. For a youtube presentation however its different. Its also purple, so any fissure would be more visible. Great work!
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TH-cam recommendations : imma make him famous
Awesome. That axe looks sick.
However, the titanium axe is going to be a whole lot more expensive.
A real masterpiece. That's a tool for life :) Well done!
is it me or did the titanium stay hotter longer than iron?
It appears so, but I am curious if the melting temps of steel and titanium are dissimilar. If he needed to bring the forge up to a higher temp to reach critical mass on the titanium I would assume it would stay hotter longer.
Pure titanium is like "ceramic metal" can't even find an actual word to describe it
While you do need a higher temperature to effectively forge titanium you also need an inert gas that isnt nitrogen to keep the titanium from becoming brittle from oxidation to keep its integrity.
It is nice to see someone make an axe and a light hammer out of titanium how ever.
The handaxe is my spirit animal
15:51 imagine if a head flew off the axe
Those safety glasses are stronger than they look 😂
#fatality ....finish him !
That was work of Art
Wish I have one
Not sure if it is just me but he totally looks like Matthew McConaughey
Pretty sure it's just you! 🤔 Yep. 😂
Great video. Never would have thought a titanium axe would be practical, you may be on to something.
I think Ebony would have been a beautiful wedge for this. Just saying
It’s more so about the quality of the wood than the looks
You got some skills buddy. That purple heart wood is sweet. Looks great!