[TheForge] Heat treat for Titanium

[Bob Ehrenberger]

A while back Pat McCarty brought a flint striker made form titanium to a BAM
meeting.  It was real impressive  and put out a shower of white sparks.
Well I got a piece of titanium and made a striker this last week. Not
knowing how to heat treat it I just normalized it.  Something isn't right,
I get an occational white spark but only about one out of every 6-10 hits.

I called Pat and he couldn't remember what he did to get the nice sparks.

Does anyone have any idea on how to heat treat it to get good sparks.  I
thought I'd ask before I experimented and runed it.

Robert Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo.
eforge at centurytel.net