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I found this online what do you think?
http://www.airborne.net/eready/janet...ku=AB-AUTO-SNB

 
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it's a POS

 
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Dont like look of it. personally.
This is nice titanium shiftknob but expensive.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...&category=6755

 
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^ That one looks cool but do you want a 6 speed **** on your Civic?

 
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I don't know the conductive properties of titanium....but I bet that sucks would be cold as a **** in the winter.

 
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Spoon's Titanium **** warms up in a matter of seconds. It is so light. Only 17.5 grams versus most ***** that weight around 200grams.

Anyways, It does warm up a hell of a lot faster than aluminum *****, etc.

 
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I almost have that same shift **** from acura except mine is the base model kind its still titanium but its 5 gears and it lettering is in black.

 
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I hate the way the Spoon Titanium **** looks...That's my opinion of coarse, but just wish they would have got more creative with the design...It's way too expensive for what it is.. Yeah, it's light, but it looks like something you buy at Autozone...My 2 cents

 
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Conductivity is 5 times higher than Aluminum (give or take a little). So it heats up and cools down a lot faster.
I HIGHLY doubt thats actually "Titanium". It would cost more just to get the chunk of titanium to machine it. At the most, a piece of it is titanium and the rest is aluminum (it does say the **** is 3 pieces).

 
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Titanium isnt expensive when you buy it in lengths. I use aerospace grade TI6AL4V Titanium at work almost every day in varying sizes of rod and bar. I machine diameters between .375" and 4". People pay for the novelty aspect because its a fashionable material right now. For example, my friend sometimes makes rings at work. He made one in a half hour and had it officialy appraised at 300 Canadian at a jewler. The material used was worth much less than a dollar. A shiftknob might at the most cost 5 dollars worth of material.

I **** you not.

 
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alright, true, if you buy shitloads of it. But then its what? $65-75 an hour for the machining (labor, overhead, etc...)? So figure it takes 8-12 minutes to make one, you gotta pay someone to assemble it, finish it, package it and ship it. Thats gotta be close to $30 right there. Then make your profit on top of that. Something just doesn't shake out right. Obviously most of the titanium ones are OEM or big names, but even the knockoff aluminum ones are going for $30ish and up... so something still doesn't make sense in the price department.

 
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Something definately stinks alright. I would DEFINATELY spend an afternoon in my machine shop rather than paying some company a fat load of money for something that really isnt all that complicated to make. The hardest part would be to engrave the top of the ****. But... Why do they even do that anyway? What kind of retard needs to look at the shifting diagram? I dont even find it attractive in any way. If I made my own, I'dd leave it bare.

The only thing thats stopped me from making one is the cold **** scenario... But maybe this thread has peaked my interest if some say it heats up quickly. My hardest choise would be finnish. Satin or polished? I personaly think the heat treated look is very lame. Who wants a rainbow ****? LOL

 
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if you check out that website they make custom bike parts so the shift **** looks like its just a little side thing

 
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titanium rings. lol.

yeah whenever I see it.. sheesh.. thats not precious metal. its neat, but er.. precious? i duno.

 
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I should get a picture of the appraised ring. It wasnt that special at all. But it was done at a proper appraisal place, so Im assuming that its somewhat accurate. But one thing I must add is he didnt tell the appraiser that he made it. That might have affected the value somehow. Funny how that works eh? But yeah, now he has a passport for the ring with the value. If we could only offload them for decent coin in large quantities, then we would be laughing. Even if we got 1/3rd of the appraised value we'dd be laughing.

 
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I saw a wedding ring with Titanium on it, looked pretty cool. it was a band of Platum with 2 bands of Titanium around it, the contrast of the 2 metals was actually really good looking.