Titanium Tuba???
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:01 am
Okay all you home tuba builders, here's your chance to get some sheets of titanium!!! 
http://www.govliquidation.com/list/e1884
http://www.govliquidation.com/list/e1884
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Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:39 am
Good God! THAT stuff is all .063 thick! A tuba made of that stuff would weigh a ton. It would take a hell of a lot of pounding to reduce it to a thickness that is usable. This is the stuff they make afterburner tubes and vector directors out of!
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 1:29 am
I don't think titanium can be spun like brass or steel and it work-hardens very very quickly. I'll settle for a stainless steel tuba first...TubaTinker wrote:Good God! THAT stuff is all .063 thick! A tuba made of that stuff would weigh a ton. It would take a hell of a lot of pounding to reduce it to a thickness that is usable. This is the stuff they make afterburner tubes and vector directors out of!
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 1:55 am
Stomvi has some trumpets with titanium in the bell material...
supposedly bright enough that you need a permit
supposedly bright enough that you need a permit
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:24 am
¡Si!bloke wrote:That's got to be the biggest sheet house in the United States!
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:04 am
That's what I heard latex trumpets were for. You know, the kind with the @@@@@ behind it...mgilbert wrote:It was the first trumpet I've seen that was actually... tolerable!
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 4:31 pm
Roll it up and make flutes. John Landell's been making titanium headjoints for about a decade now and has even made a titanium flute (with silver keys).