First discovered as an element in a black magnetic sand at Menachin, Cornwell, England in 1791. It is an abundant element but is often considered a rare metal due to it's difficulty and expense of separation. It has a strong affinity to oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon. The pure metal has a silvery white color and is extrtemely hard. The Coloring Process I employ, yelds a very controlled and uniform titanium oxide coating.
Titanium oxide is harder than titanium itself and is actually clear.
It has no color of it's own. The colors that appears is due to the refraction of light through this very thin clear coating of titanium oxide. Hot Forging is done while the metal is from white to red hot and most malleable and plastic in nature. Forging is also done after the metal has been annealed and cooled. This is known as Cold Forging .