Titanium

Titanium Knife Handles and Tools

For knife handles, Titanium has got to be the best of the best. It’s obscenely lightweight. Incredibly durable and super premium feeling in hand. Titanium gives the approximate strength of steel, at about the weight of Aluminium!

It’s also easy to colour – you can just heat it up for a head oxidation layer that can go from light blues to bright purples and even golds. Or, it can be anodized, painted or machined to attractive finishes.

Titanium is quite expensive, so of course, it’s usually found in your more premium folding knives. However, it’s increasingly found in things like prybars and multitools or pens and other EDC gadgets.

Titanium Composition

Like Aluminium, Titanium is available in multiple different grades and alloys. Most commonly in knives, you’ll see Ti6AL4V alloy. Often known as ‘alpha-beta’ titanium allots. Not just for knives of course, but it’s one of the most popular for knife handles.

Interestingly, this particular alloy is about 6% aluminum with roughly 4% vanadium. It’s an optimum blend of materials that give exactly the properties required in handles – strength, rigidity, and weight!