My dive knife is made out of titanium.
pros for titanium in a dive knife: corrsion resistance (very good!) and strength (havn't really tested this).

cons: Pretty expensive

It just occured to me that i have never see a folding knife with titanium blade. other than the price, what are the other reasons for this? i don't know much about steels and knife materials so i could be missing the obvious. a quick web search didn't reveal much:/

Mission Knives has a folder in titanium. However the price is $389.


Robert

Mission Knives and Ocean Master each make titanium-blade folding knives. Other than expense, the tradeoff is in edge-holding. They're pretty much for applications where corrosion resistance is more important.. diving, sailing, or living on or next to salt water.

Mission knives are pretty darned expensive, but they get good reviews. I haven't tried one, but I don't think even their fans claim that they hold an edge like steel.

I have one of the Ocean Master folders- they're much less expensive (I think I paid a little over $50), and the handle is Zytel. I used to carry it when running, since it is very lightweight, I didn't expect to use it at all so edge holding wasn't a big factor, and anything I carried got covered in sweat- I managed to rust some stainless blades.

Ocean Master's site seems to be down right now, but here's a dealer:

http://www.sharpdiver.com/product_info.p...db1ae60f6280778

Mission Knives:

http://www.missionknives.com/Indexframes.html

I've posted before about Liquid Metal and have learned from an e-mail to them that they are supplying quantities of their product to "several" custom knife makers.

While corrosion is not eliminated with Liquid Metal, the company claims very high corrosion resistance compared to most current blade materials. Pretty hard to top titanium, though, which is why my mountain bike is probably 90% Ti by weight! With some replacement parts, I expect to be riding that original 1993 frame 30 years from now. Can't wait to see what the custom bike makers do with Liquid Metal, though! <img src="/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

http://www.liquidmetaltechnologies.com/index/default.asp

Ti just doesn't take and hold a good edge

Want an almost totally corrosion resistant knife that holds a great edge? Look at Stellite/talonite

How about a ceramic knife? I've heard that's the way to go if you want to cut kevlar, a place I've seen where you can order Kevlar online also sells a $35 ceramic scissors.

Ceramic knives are very brittle. They chip easily. Also, they are not easily sharpened. you may need to send them to a special shop to get them sharpened.

I got the memo. <-- Heheh sorry but I have been holding that one in for quite some time . <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

OK, you got me....
Just what is a TPS report???

The term has been used in both 'Office Space' and 'Shaun of the Dead' in a way that makes it seem like it is a useless type of make-work.

What is it really?

They never really explain it, but the idea is that it is a pointless piece of makework, that they spend more effort on than the actual work they really do. It's bureaucracy taking on a life of it's own. It doesn't really matter what's in the report, you're not supposed to know. They try to keep everything as general as possible to make you think it could be your office. At least that how I interpret it when I watched "Office Space". My wife thought it was a horror movie, but that's because she works in a disfunctional office a lot like that. I'm lucky that I got out of the cubicle world and work at home now.

Getting back on topic, I saw some large lightweight folders at a sporting goods store this summer, that had the light bronze tint of titanium. I didn't ask questions about them though. I seem to recall it had the brand name of a well known gun maker, I thought it was Remington- but I don't see them on their website. The plain blade had a nice drop-point shape 3 to 4 inches long, they had versions with just a plain blade, a blade and gut hook, and a blade, gut hook, and saw. If they'd had a version with just a plain blade and a saw I probably would have bought it. Anybody know what I'm talking about?