# Anyone have experience anodizing blasted titanium **URL:** \ **Category:** Yo-Yo Mods and Maintenance\ **Created:** [February 9, 2025, 2:06am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-have-experience-anodizing-blasted-titanium/418841 "2025-02-09T02:06:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JonC](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/jonc/32/272384_2.png) [@JonC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/JonC)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 2:06am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-have-experience-anodizing-blasted-titanium/418841/1 "2025-02-09T02:06:11Z")
Does anybody have any personal experience on anodizing bead blasted titanium. I’m getting perfect color on a titanium Triton, The problem I’m experiencing, once it’s dry the second you touch it, it smudges. It’s like it’s collecting the oils off my fingers. It turns every spot you touch into a dull darker color. I really feel like this has to do with the bead blasting. I can take windex, clean off clean it off and 90% of it goes away but it leaves a small spot. I’ve successfully anodized a few things, this is the first time I’ve tried anything that was bead blasted. ![IMG_2390](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/1/0/a/10add9b8cd39b6582b1feab6d0f8a1f89865dddf.jpeg) It went from looking like this, to this, just after touching it ![IMG_2385](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/4/3/4/43477b2fa0cea1bf9ddf2691e14da6587fcbaefe.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![JonC](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/jonc/32/272384_2.png) [@JonC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/JonC)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 2:07am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-have-experience-anodizing-blasted-titanium/418841/2 "2025-02-09T02:07:04Z")
FYI, those photos came in backwards. The second one is the before, the first one is after it was touched. ---
**Author:** ![MattC](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/mattc/32/258241_2.png) [@MattC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/MattC)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 2:23am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-have-experience-anodizing-blasted-titanium/418841/3 "2025-02-09T02:23:23Z")
@dizzo you seen anything like this homie ---
**Author:** ![yoyojoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e99b99/32.png) [@yoyojoe](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyojoe)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 3:34am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-have-experience-anodizing-blasted-titanium/418841/4 "2025-02-09T03:34:49Z")
I have a bunch of blasted ti that does this. They all collect fingerprints like crazy. As long as they wipe off it’s just the way it’s going to be. ---
**Author:** ![JonC](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/jonc/32/272384_2.png) [@JonC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/JonC)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 3:58am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-have-experience-anodizing-blasted-titanium/418841/5 "2025-02-09T03:58:13Z")
OK, one more thing, once the smudges appear, I can take Windex and wipe it off, but only about 85% of the mark is removed, it still leaves a small darker spot. It gets way better, but it never returns to how it was before I originally touched it. So as I play, it gets worse and worse, and each time I clean it ,it never looks as good as it did the time before… ---
**Author:** ![SlowThrow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/slowthrow/32/307451_2.png) [@SlowThrow](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SlowThrow)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 4:26am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-have-experience-anodizing-blasted-titanium/418841/6 "2025-02-09T04:26:15Z")
I dare you to hit it with some monkey buff lol 😆 ---
**Author:** ![MattC](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/mattc/32/258241_2.png) [@MattC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/MattC)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 1:15pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-have-experience-anodizing-blasted-titanium/418841/7 "2025-02-09T13:15:31Z")
What do you think would happen? ---
**Author:** ![iamsteve44](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8e8cbc/32.png) [@iamsteve44](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/iamsteve44)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 1:28pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-have-experience-anodizing-blasted-titanium/418841/8 "2025-02-09T13:28:48Z")
I think the blasting grabs the oils. Happens less with electroplating i think ---
**Author:** ![SlowThrow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/slowthrow/32/307451_2.png) [@SlowThrow](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SlowThrow)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 1:37pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-have-experience-anodizing-blasted-titanium/418841/9 "2025-02-09T13:37:13Z")
I just think it would fill in all the pores of the finish, deepen the color, and probably help mitigate the appearance of prints tbh, because the finish would be saturated. Just a dare because I think it would probably be irreversible lol. Maybe if you scrub it with power wash and hot water, but I would assume it would forever be pulled into the micron textured surface. ---
**Author:** ![MattC](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/mattc/32/258241_2.png) [@MattC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/MattC)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 1:53pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-have-experience-anodizing-blasted-titanium/418841/10 "2025-02-09T13:53:52Z")
Oh i see your point. Once applied its over. ---
**Author:** ![SlowThrow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/slowthrow/32/307451_2.png) [@SlowThrow](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SlowThrow)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 2:10pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-have-experience-anodizing-blasted-titanium/418841/11 "2025-02-09T14:10:14Z")
Yeah like wax on a faded car without clearcoat ---
**Author:** ![MattC](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/mattc/32/258241_2.png) [@MattC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/MattC)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 10:48pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-have-experience-anodizing-blasted-titanium/418841/12 "2025-02-09T22:48:28Z")
This worked btw. Didn’t use the snot but a similar commercial item. Problem solved. Thank you dude. ![1000003668](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/3/b/1/3b1c36f6cc73ce10b4abfd7cc1ea1c6a2ff1db5f.jpeg) ![1000003667](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/c/4/b/c4b02b1d815f38b7cb20fb0417b07ce337451176.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![SlowThrow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/slowthrow/32/307451_2.png) [@SlowThrow](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SlowThrow)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 11:26pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-have-experience-anodizing-blasted-titanium/418841/13 "2025-02-09T23:26:22Z")
Dang that looks great! Beautiful shade of blue ---
**Author:** ![Lotaxi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/lotaxi/32/597486_2.png) [@Lotaxi](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Lotaxi)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 10:03pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-have-experience-anodizing-blasted-titanium/418841/14 "2025-02-14T22:03:05Z")
I have a fair bit of experience with anodizing titanium. Difficulty with Ti ano is that it’s an incredibly thin coating and it’s not a dye. Anything that might interfere or change the way light reaches and reflects off the surface will change the way it looks, and the thinner the oxide the bigger the change. This coating looks like it’s a lower voltage blue, which is one of the thinner coatings out there. Blast or not, I would expect to see this kind of discoloration after touching something with a low voltage color. Just harder to clean because of the blast texture. Intentionally saturating with something to make it a uniform color like you did is probably the best solution. ---
**Author:** ![JonC](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/jonc/32/272384_2.png) [@JonC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/JonC)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 4:12am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-have-experience-anodizing-blasted-titanium/418841/15 "2025-02-15T04:12:27Z")
Thanks for the info,I appreciate it… ---
**Author:** ![Lotaxi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/lotaxi/32/597486_2.png) [@Lotaxi](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Lotaxi)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 4:36am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-have-experience-anodizing-blasted-titanium/418841/16 "2025-02-15T04:36:28Z")
If you ever run across a coating that can keep fingerprints off the surface and doesn’t change the interference properties of the Ti oxide, please let me know. I’ve been looking for one for a while.