Green Anodized Titanium Ring?

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Hi guys! I was just wondering if its possible for someone here to make a Green Lantern Power Ring made of "Green Anodized Titanium?" I've read it in one of the message posted that somebody proposed to make it out of anodized aluminum... My concern is that aluminum is not that durable and other metals like silver, white gold, etc cannot be anodized, although it can be painted with metallic green paint which is not advisable for a ring since it will only chip-off/fade.
I've seen Green Anodized body-piercing jewelries and it really looks superb!
Just think of the possibilities if someone can make an anodized titanium ring... Titanium is one of the most (if not the most) durable metals, it is used for surgical implants, industrial equiptments, jewelries, and even space shuttles. Anodizing it can create almost all possible colors we all wanted to have (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, black, even multiple toned colors). Just sharing my thoughts....
Any opinions with regards to this matter is most appreciated.

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http://www.cascadiadesignstudio.com/ring-colors.htm

http://www.titaniumweddingringsandba...nium-Rings.htm

http://www.tirings.com/index.php/cPath/15/view_all/1

http://www.bodycandy.com/cgi-bin/cat...cgi?item=22628

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your best bet would probably be TRstudio...

http://www.tirings.com/

they have a wide selection of rings and go a lot of custom work with an e~mail to speak to the designer directly... but to perfectly honest you might be better looking into Niobium rings instead of Titanium, as the green hue that you're looking for in a GL ring is stupidly hard to get in Titanium but can be reproduced in Niobium quite easily and cheaply...

Here comes the science...

Anodizing is a weird process, just for those who don't know...

There is no dye in the colors brought out by anodizing titanium, niobium, or tantalum.

The colors are produced by controlled application of a fairly simple law of physics.

When 2 parallel continuous waves of the same frequency collide, the resulting wave will be the same frequency, and somewhere between the sum of the sizes of the two incident (starting) waves, and completely flat. If the crest of one lines up with the trough of the other, they cancel out. If the peak lines up with the peak, then they reinforce.

Light, which is made up of energy packets called photons, can also be modeled as light waves. A beam of light can be accurately visualized as waves in the (proven non-existent) interstellar ether, like water waves propagate on water.

Visible light has wavelengths from 350nm (blue) to 700nm (red). Between these falls the full rainbow spectrum of visible light.

nm = nano-meters: 25,400,000 nm = 1", 1,000 nm = 1 micron, 1/10nm = 1 Å is the diameter of a hydrogen atom.

White light is made up of all colors together in particular proportions; similar to a black-body radiation skewed bell curve peaking at blue-green. The solar spectral distribution is what we call white.

When there is a transparent dielectric material (dielectric = insulator, like glass, water, quartz, titania) in contact with air, light will reflect off of the boundary with an efficiency proportional to the sine of the incident angle and to the dielectric constant (density, sort of) of the material. The farther the angle is from straight on, the better the surface reflection.

Well, the human eye sees red, green and blue as individual colors. All other colors we describe are made up of combinations of these 3. Although we are taught ROYGBIV, in school (which shows green in the middle), green is actually very close to red in the spectrum. Because the titanium colors are actually statistical blends of zones of the spectrum, the titanium spectrum runs:

bronze (the blue half of the spectrum is canceled, and nothing else effected)

blues (red-green is canceled)

blue-white (almost balanced, but still missing some red)

yellow (canceling blue, the second time around. This is the practical high-end for heat coloring)

magenta (also called purple, canceling green, leaving blue and red)

cyan (canceling red more narrowly, leaving bue and green

green (canceling both ends, keeping the narrow green band. Hard to get in Titanium, easier with Niobium.)

Right, enough science, onto the fun...

but all in all, if you really wanted to go ahead with this you need a few things...

1. a GL ring crafted in Aluminum (yuk), Titanium (Cool, expensive and hard to Anodize correctly) or Niobium (My primary choice)

2. an anodizing kit... now don't cry, it's actually not as tough as it looks...

take a look here and what this guy has done with anodizing and you can actually but your own anodizing kit... rough guess, depending on which bits and pieces you needed for specific metals, i'd say you're looking at a one off spend of $400 to $500, then you can anodize whatever you want, whenever you want...

http://www.focuser.com/atm/anodize/anodize.html

just to give you an idea, not quite sure what this used to be, but now it's a funky pink / red color...



Anyway, use the top link or this one...

http://www.furthers.com/titaniumcelticrings12.htm

for custom Titanium rings, or if you want to go the extra bit for ease (my recommendation), look into Niobium here...

http://www.aestheticsbodymod.com

they really know their stuff and could help you find a decent Niobium custom manufacturer if they can't do it...

but if you do actually get it up and done i'd love to see it and would probably be interested in buying a ring myself

M

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Thank you so much Methos for sharing your very informative post. I'm now having second thoughts of the titanium material (expensive & difficult).
I'll try to check about the Nobium metal (hope its not as expensive as titanium). Your information really helped me a lot. Thanks again!

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anytime

Niobium is quite a new one for jewelry but cheap and easy to use

M

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Hi guys! I was just wondering if its possible for someone here to make a Green Lantern Power Ring made of "Green Anodized Titanium?" I've read it in one of the message posted that somebody proposed to make it out of anodized aluminum... My concern is that aluminum is not that durable and other metals like silver, white gold, etc cannot be anodized, although it can be painted with metallic green paint which is not advisable for a ring since it will only chip-off/fade.
I've seen Green Anodized body-piercing jewelries and it really looks superb!
Just think of the possibilities if someone can make an anodized titanium ring... Titanium is one of the most (if not the most) durable metals, it is used for surgical implants, industrial equiptments, jewelries, and even space shuttles. Anodizing it can create almost all possible colors we all wanted to have (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, black, even multiple toned colors). Just sharing my thoughts....
Any opinions with regards to this matter is most appreciated.

The only anodized ring project currently in the works is one for anodized ALUMINUM rings (keep in mind that aircraft-grade aluminum is quite strong, and is regularly used for props, as well as consumer products such as the world-renowned Mag-Lite® flashlights! ) at a prop making and collecting forum I'm a member of. The maker currently plans to make EVERY type of power ring, including all the ones for the new "Rainbow Coalition" of new Corps!

BUT... and, let's face it, you KNEW there'd be one... these rings will ONLY be available to members of the forum in question! And if you are NOT currently already a member of said forum, you're out of luck, because their registration is currently CLOSED. If you are not currently a member, you will NOT be able to join in order to get in on these.

As for the durability of the anodized aluminum rings, all I can tell you is that the guy that's making them first experimented with doing anodized aluminum power rings back in 2002, and the ones he made back then NEVER come up for resale, at least not that I've seen. So the owners MUST be very happy with them!

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ok, how about this for a slight update... for the tech wizards out there...

why not work on a ring that does actually glow, again, not a new thing as there have been several designs before from people with glowing rings... ok, how about this... a USB chargable ring that has function as well? maybe control your phone or Ipod?

ok, hands up if you think i'm crazy... anyone? well, you can all put your hands down now, as Apple is again leading the way when it comes to Wireless tech that looks cooler than Hal Jordan drawn by Michael Turner...







am i the only one that sees so much potential with the amount of tiny tech that will be available in this ring? it's a modders dream come true lol

M

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ok, how about this for a slight update... for the tech wizards out there...

why not work on a ring that does actually glow, again, not a new thing as there have been several designs before from people with glowing rings... ok, how about this... a USB chargable ring that has function as well? maybe control your phone or Ipod?

ok, hands up if you think i'm crazy... anyone? well, you can all put your hands down now, as Apple is again leading the way when it comes to Wireless tech that looks cooler than Hal Jordan drawn by Michael Turner...







am i the only one that sees so much potential with the amount of tiny tech that will be available in this ring? it's a modders dream come true lol

M

Yeah, but it's an APPLE product, powered by a rechargeable battery, so you know what that means...

it's liable to BURST INTO FLAMES ON YOUR FINGER!!!

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Yeah, but it's an APPLE product, powered by a rechargeable battery, so you know what that means...

it's liable to BURST INTO FLAMES ON YOUR FINGER!!!

No kidding, or singe your skin, mutate you in some way....pick your poison.

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Will it turn you into a ninja turtle? Or Rhino, rhino's are cool

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It sounds like very well. And I want to the green anodized titanium ring was very well. I want to know its more information. I'm interested it.
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Huh?