Now Call me "The Titanium Man"

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I have upgraded my tin foil hat to Titanium foil. I feel poorer, but somewhat brighter and socially superior.
 
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GFS sells solid Ti trem blocks for 60 bucks (well, they claim it's real, solid titanium). The tooling marks are included in the price. The blasting cabinet, compressor and media are not.
 
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Darg1911 said:
The tooling marks are included in the price.
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This is very interesting ... the tooling marks would be, I assume, tiny scratches/ cuts/ gouges/ abrasions ... i.e. tiny areas of missing material.

So, included in the price you get missing material. Areas of pure nothingness. Like buying cheese with holes in it.

For people like me, who have no interest in Titanium beyond it's uses in millinery, I think I'll just purchase a bag of tooling marks.
 
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The tooling or machining marks would be seen in a part that isn't "finished", or maybe only is rough finished. Not missing material, more like extra material that wasn't removed in a final step. No blasting or polishing of the piece after machining. I'm not a machinist but the specified dimensions of a quality piece would take into consideration the removal of the marks left by the machining process. But that's probably a dimensional difference in the hundreds if not thousands of an inch. That dimension would make a functional difference in something like a firearm slide or frame but probably doesn't make a functional difference in a trem block. Just looks cheap/crappy. http://www.guitarfetish.com/USA-113mm-Spaced-Machined-Solid-Titanium-Tremolo-Block-_p_13934.html
 
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EAProwlerB said:
Here is a guitar to go with your bridge: http://gittlerinstruments.com/
Now you just need titanium strings and your all set.
BTW the Russians used to make whole freaking Alfa class submarines out of titanium.
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And rich people have roofs made of it.
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This is the titanium roof home where the roof alone costs 1 million AUD. The entire house is 20 million, with a 30 car garage. It is owned by a doctor who specializes in titanium prosthetics. It literally cost him an arm and an leg!
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Yes, but titanium has a tighter grain structure than aluminum.

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I find it fascinating that guitarists are usually a change resisting crowd.
We like old school designs and tubes, mostly.

But brass or titanium back then weren't a thing, so why the fascination? I wouldn't drop those pieces into a vintage-style guitar for that reason. I'd stick to the materials of that age if I wanted that sort of thing.

In a Ibanez or Jackson or Aristides or something, hell yeah.
 
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I find it more sad that guitarists seem to be so hidebound. It's like they want to be rock and roll rebels, but only insomuch as doing exactly what their "heroes" did 30 to 50 years ago.

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Demanic said:
I find it more sad that guitarists seem to be so hidebound. It's like they want to be rock and roll rebels, but only insomuch as doing exactly what their "heroes" did 30 to 50 years ago.
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a-ha! and there is the rub, my good fellow.

guys want to chase the woman tone or the brown sound or Hetfield's crunch or Billy G's sweet bite. they'll spend $600 a set on some tone-sniffing boutique pups to put in a $4k Lester... but... you're crazy if you drop $215 on a titanium stop bar tailpiece or $224 on a titanium ABR bridge/saddle assembly. :rolleyes:
 
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I have some Titanium, but it's attached to my neck/spine. It cost around $100,000.
 
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First of all, about the Ti on the Strat- this one is for a Strat I wanted to make totally modern . Eventually it'll get Zephyrs in at least the middle and neck.

Most of my Strats are 'Vintage-modern', with at least upgrades of Callaham or Wudtone steel bridges, and modern radiused necks with large Stainless steel frets and Schaller or Hipshot locking tuners...that an premium and /or exotic tone woods with premium finishes including beautiful laminate tops and many of some are aged from the 80's.

What is the point of building a total vintage replica when advances in technology have made the Strat, which is an ideal platform, so much better in functionality?


So it's not like putting a V8 in a Volkswagen if you catch my drift. An original vintage strat ..now that you think about it, might be interesting to trick out with all modern stuff, but its hard to improve on total perfection, because of the master handcrafted assembley and aged old growth woods and the best pickups the world has ever seen.
 
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Diego said:
I find it fascinating that guitarists are usually a change resisting crowd.
We like old school designs and tubes, mostly.

But brass or titanium back then weren't a thing, so why the fascination? I wouldn't drop those pieces into a vintage-style guitar for that reason. I'd stick to the materials of that age if I wanted that sort of thing.

In a Ibanez or Jackson or Aristides or something, hell yeah.
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Vintage ABR saddles are made out of brass......so its been around as a guitar material for quite a while.
 
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MetalManiac said:
So it's not like putting a V8 in a Volkswagen if you catch my drift. An original vintage strat ..now that you think about it, might be interesting to trick out with all modern stuff, but its hard to improve on total perfection, because of the master handcrafted assembley and aged old growth woods and the best pickups the world has ever seen.
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not to crap your enthusiasm, but that last paragraph depends on a huge lot of factors, but first what do you consider an original vintage strat, i mean what year, that might really dictate if all of your last sentence is true or you are just being blindfolded by a sub-par overpriced old POS and poorly made guitar that somehow gets considered as vintage

in short, if made by leo or on the time he was very involved in the making i agree, else i pity your poor, poor miserable and painful soul
 
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