Titanium wire supplier ?

tony stella - Monday, August 15, 2011 - 9:53am

Hi Everyone;

I am very new to this blog thing and i am learning as i go. I am also very new to the metal industry , my wife and i manufacure titanium wire ear rings and we are very interested in a supplier. We have found it very hard, so far to find a company that
handles/manufactures 18 gauge titanium wire.
We are also very interested in anodising , the effect we are after is a rainbow color.
If you have any info it would be greatly appreciated . Oh YA , i think it is hard to find a company we are in victoria b.c. cananda and i am not sure if we can manufacture anything here but cold weather.......lol ......thank you for your help in advance ..............

tony & elaine

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Any welding shop can get

ScottTheSculptor - Monday, August 15, 2011 - 3:12pm

Any welding shop can get titanium as TIG rod.

You don't anodize titanium unless you want it brown.
Heat oxidation will get you permenant colors.
Yellow is thin, blue is thickest - past that it burns off the oxide layers as you continue to heat it.

even colors mean perfect surface prep and even heating - most heat randomly and deal with the mix of colors

Look for expired or contaminated TIG rod - if you aren't welding with it . . .

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Actually Titanium can be

bigfootnampa - Monday, August 15, 2011 - 4:44pm

Actually Titanium can be anodized in a whole rainbow of colors and some jewelers are doing that now. I do not know much about setting up a small shop operation but it CAN be done and quite reasonably too. Take a look at Mr. Titanium's web page: http://mrtitanium.com/anodizing.html

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