Me and my cousin anodized this up today, I did the fades, he did the pattern. It came out way better than either of us thought it would, overall very happy with it.
I ran into issues stripping my ti-walker and will need to polish it to get good results.
Pictures?
Coming soon, I forgot to attach them. they’re taking a long time to upload
Dang!! That looks really good.
If you use rust remover to strip it you should always grab some steel wool to buff it a bit. Also good job those look awesome!
Dang those look great. I have a handful of beat up yo-yos to play with doing an ano on at some point when life is less busy
The Vayder pic is a really high resolution lol, that’s why they took so long to upload.
Also that’s an amazing purple.
These look sick! Great work!
Yeah, whatever they coated the ti-vayder with does not seem to be ano and was very tough to etch. We did use multi etch, whink or something might’ve done a better job in this case.
Gonna rub it with some cape cod clothes and see if I can buff it back up in the next few days here.
We did mask the bearing seats, so it still plays well.
Right on! I’ve been anodizing my titanium’s for a few months now!! Once u start it’s addicting! I love it! The only thing I’m missing is multi etch. That’s awesome that u have some I wish I had some. It would make the stripping process so much faster. I usually use greased lightning to strip but then I still have to sand/polish it to get everything nice n clean. So I’m very careful about what colors I do. I start out picking colors at the lowest levels and try to get a clean job I’m happy with then play it like that for awhile then when I want new colors I’ll go again slightly higher levels and so on until I get so high that eventually I have to strip and start over but with multietch it basically strips it perfectly super quick right?
Nice job btw they came out awesome. What did u do to get the splash pattern
Pretty impressive!
Whoa! Looks great! 
That is freaking gorgeous!
In hindsight multi etch is expensive. In the future I will be ordering ammonium persulfate and sodium fluoride and mixing my own.
I also will not be trying to dissolve harsh chemical coatings off of anymore yoyos, in the future 
and I would recommend others not try it. It gave very poor results and is going to now require more work and a whole nother attempt.
Even sanding it, I hate to imagine what the dust from that could do to a person or future children or something.
And honestly, for a first attempt it was pretty easy. I mean with setup, practice runs, masking/drying, and cleanup it took a little more than a work day, I think it could be sped up dramatically in the future to be a few hour project.
Yeah I’ve done a small amount of ti anodising. It doesn’t have to take that long. (Especially when you’ve done it a couple of times)
Yeah, we had to make a last minute trip to the store for a few tools we were missing, plus we wanted to make sure the fading and masking was gonna work on our blanks, so a lot of that time was waiting for rubber cement to dry.
Also the etch is stated to be effective at room temp, but we had no luck with that and had to heat the solution multiple times.
We also couldn’t really get beyond 75 volts, past that the colors were very uneven and took a long time at voltage to get partial coverage, even after thorough degreasing and etching. If anyone has a solution for what could cause this, we’d have really liked to be able to get to green.
Have you had any success with higher voltages? We were not able to get good coverage at high voltages, 73 volts or so seemed to be roughly the limit, so we were unable to even get green at all and got hard capped at the darker pinks.
Yup I’ve had success all the to 100 volts.
Did you use distilled water? And did u use any other chemicals in ur process? Like a windex bath or anything like that? And what did u use for electrolyte additive? Baking soda? Or did u use something else? These are all things that could possibly be affecting it. In my experience something similar happened to me one time when I didn’t have distilled water so I used tap.
Also what setup are use getting ur voltage from? Batteries or power supply?
