Description: Titanium Mithril
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I have been handmaking custom chainmail for 18 years and have been working specifically with titanium for over a decade. I use Grade 5 (often referred to as "aircraft grade") titanium alloy.
Titanium is the closest thing to a "mythical" metal that is known today. It is very light - almost half the weight of stainless steel. Alloyed, it is immensely strong - almost twice the stength of stainless steel. It is the perfect hardness - quite rigid with marked spring-back, but soft enough to bend without breaking or shattering like tungsten and its alloys. It is extremely corrosive resistant. It can be anodized. It is hypo-allergenic. Truely, the only thing seperating it from the mythical metal of J.R