Titanium Blades

Titanium is an elemental metal like iron or copper, but in knives it's used in ally form-combined with other elements to give the metal different properties. There are many different steel alloys designed for different tasks, the same is true for titanium. Titanium with the best heat treating such as "air-hardening" is only capable of achieving a hardness of Rockwell 47 C and that's not as hard as a typical steel blade, at Colonial we push the envelope in reaching a Rockwell hardness between 58-60 C. However, if you're the person that likes the odd and like to collect knives rather than use them, then the Titanium blade is for you and will make a nice discussion piece, but should you use your titanium blade, don't try to re-sharpen it with a traditional stone (an exercise in futility). Diamond sharpeners are the only to go.