Titanium ‘Steel’ Hammer/Battery/Frizzen

[TDM]

In my case it was 12 year old single malt scotch.

That would have been an even greater loss!

 

[bpd303]

Now that that's out of the way, I'd like to get back to the OP's subject. Yes titanium can be used for better sparking on a hammer/frizzen. However it should be high quality titanium. The grades of titanium range from grade 1 the lowest quality to grade 4 the highest.

From another forum the subject of titanium metallurgy came up and from all that I gathered was yes Apple did use titanium in their early Mac Books, however it was a very low quality due to the expense. Now in their very expensive I phone's they are using a higher quality of titanium in the cases.
Having said that, before I would try it on a flintlock, I would thoroughly test it out for sparking with a flint. Then report the results here.

 

[sussexmuzllodr]

I relined my frizzen,s with metal I had found out in The New Mexico Desert. It sparks so well I have to wear welding goggles when I shoot!

 

[Johnny Tremain]

Battery as in beating them over the head with your rifle.
Cant fit a ever ready anywhere on my flinter

 

[TDM]

I relined my frizzen,s with metal I had found out in The New Mexico Desert. It sparks so well I have to wear welding goggles when I shoot!

Well it is much safer doing that. Kinda hard to see the target though.

 

[Commodore Swab]

It was common practice to reshoe a frizzen as it wore down. Converting a wheellock to flint. A flintlock to percussion ect. Updating the frizzen face could be compared to using a modern knapped flint in a weapon made before flints we're being knapped in that manner.

 

[Howard Pippin]

Has anyone have any experience or input on such a thing? Titanium seems to have the capacity to act just as a steel hammer does but with a hotter white spark of titanium shavings from a flint. This chap is using a titanium fire starter of the same pattern as steel ones and it works well from the video.
I have an old Mac allegedly titanium computer case I could cut up. From what I can discover on titanium work a thin strip of titanium could be fixed to a steel hammer either by epoxy or riveting. Soldering is not an option.
As to why do such a thing, it looks like it could be a more reliable sparker than steel and far safer than the depleted uranium tried years ago. As far as I can determine titanium is softer than high carbon steel as in a conventional hammer so it might have implications for the stone being used perhaps?

More power to you. Those that want to stop history in about 1820 are welcome to stay there, but I think those old people would have experimented with anything they could find that would make things better. If they wouldn't have done that, they'd still be using a match lock or wheel lock. Why do you think that so many of them embraced percussion caps? My understanding is Hawkins only made percussions and it was at the very early start of that technology.
Squint

 

[45man]

Titanium is dangerous to your health too.

 

[Jay Templin]

Well it is much safer doing that. Kinda hard to see the target though.