Mens Titanium Wedding Bands Colors

The natural color of titanium is white. Not the alabaster white you see on bleached paper, but a metallic white akin to that of silver. But its gray hue is darker and richer than that of silver metal.

But not all mens titanium wedding bands come in silver colour. Recent designs include exotic colors of red, yellow, brown, blue and more. Among the colors of titanium bands, the deep metallic blue is the most popular among men not only because of the great contrast between blue and the original sliver colour, but also because blue is typically the preferred colour for mens accessories. Also, blue exemplifies sophistication that complements the image of mens titanium wedding bands.

So how are exotic colors etched onto mens titanium wedding bands?

Colored mens titanium wedding bands are made using the anodizing process. Anodizing involves the oxidation of titanium metal either by thermal or electrical means. The coating of titanium oxide is highly refractive, and depending on the layer of titanium coating made, the refraction exhibits a different color.

Although titanium oxide is corrosion resistant, it cannot be deposited too thickly with current techniques and therefore is susceptible to mechanical wear. Therefore an anodized titanium wedding band will become discoloured easily when it accidentally scratched. To protect the color of your titanium wedding bands, anodizing treatment are usually protected with a layer of epoxy resin coating or the anodizing treatment can be used in a design sitting in a valley lower than the ring surface.

Another way of adding colour to mens titanium wedding bands is the cheaper, but usually less popular method of simply adding a pigment layer over the ring followed by a layer of epoxy resin coat to prevent the pigment from coming off. Some consumers think of this as ‘contaminating’ the titanium since the pigments are not titanium, and prefer anodizing titanium for colored rings. However, certain colors are outside the range of titanium anodizing and can only be made the pigment method.

Besides colored mens titanium wedding bands, the latest in ring band designs catered for men include the black colored mens titanium wedding bands. Black titanium wedding bands are not made from anodizing or pigmentation. Black titanium wedding bands are actually really black; the black comes from the natural colour of a special alloy of titanium.

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