This is why those x minutes per pound references are a load of hogwash . <| sep |> Wait , I thought you were the ones who wanted to fork off the chain ? <| sep |> I had a barber that charged 10 . It was a PITA . 79 makes keep the change easy . 15 feels too much and I rarely carry change so giving him 15 and asking for change is even worse . <| sep |> It ' s likely added on as powder and then melted on with a laser beam or electron beam . Melting a little amount at a time is easier . I know from looking at steel that titanium alloys ' melting point is higher than that of normal steel around some 1500 C but lower than that of aluminium oxide at about 2000 C . I ' d say something like 1600 or 1700 celsius , going up or down depending on how it ' s alloyed . The difference isn ' t huge really .