As an industrial knife maker & machinist a customer has requested some prototype skate blades from titanium. Does anyone know whether there is a grade that can be hardened to approximatley 52-56 rc and if so what it is and the what specs I need for my heat treater. Thanks for any help you can offer.

Paul

there was a recent thread on BF about this. search on "Bybee". he said beta-Ti is the harder stuff, very expensive, hard to find, and round.