What about an undersized pocket friendly titanium?
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That’s been done…it was called the ricochet 8)
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This
Would have to be a total redesign then.
Gradient with thinner walls? Might end up super stable with all that rim weight. Switching from spikes to ultralights would shed some weight too.
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Why?
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Sorry. Forgot to quote this.
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Oooooh. I missed that post earlier. I understand.
It looks like its close to 1.6 times the weight. I never knew it was so much heavier.
“Titanium is 60% the weight of steel, and aluminum is 60% the weight of titanium.”
Source: weight difference between aluminum and titanium | 1911Forum
"Aluminum .09750 lb/ci
Titanium .16300 lb/ci
Tensile Yield Strength
6061-T6 45,000 PSI
7075-T6 67,000 PSI
Titanium (general) 110,000 PSI" (edited)
source: http://www.cnczone.com/forums/general-off-topic-discussions/19373-titanium-vs-aluminum.html
So its not about just because you can stretch the walls laughably thin, but rather you’d almost need to in order to save weight.
sings The more you know!!!
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Yeah. I had no idea Ti and Al we’re so different. All this is good info.
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I think there is a lot of room for experimentation here, since titanium is denser than aluminum.
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I’d say the OD Sovereign and Oxy Ti 2011 both fall under pocket throw given they both have pretty small diameters and are quite thin.
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I’m thinking like, Executive or Masamini small though.
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Supernova
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A Russ Andert mini that’s fully titanium.
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I got something similar cooking 
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Any chance you’d make it a little larger? but keep the width? ;D
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I like where this is going…
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I like the sound of that a lot.
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Right now, it’s sitting at about 45mm diameter, and 31mm width, but if you’re thinking like Walter, someone else might be on that
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Nine dragons or something with v5
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I was totally thinking about that today! Really thin titanium shells for it! Would that be possible?
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