Price
 

Yeah, that is very high; I'm getting it for about the same as good 316, sometimes less.
Fair leads,
Brion Toss

Titanium costs
 

Hi.
I was about ready to post my reply when I hit a wrong key on my very small laptop and the reply disappeared. However, if this appears as double reply, please forgive! I have been working all week in an unheated hall (temp below freezing) and the fingers are about as flexible as sausages.
Here goes again:
NiAlBr: "price will be £57.95 / PC"
Titanium: "A ball park figure for titanium plates would be £225 / PC"
Supplier: Chrome Nickel Alloys Limited
Figures in quotes are from supplier´s email.
My mental arithmetic wasn´t too good either, but there is a significant difference in price.
Bear in mind that the US seems to be a totally different envíronment to europe when it comes to anything a bit exotic. I am a keen woodworker and so have experienced exactly the same problems with regard to sourcing fittings for furniture. The adverts in the back of Wooden Boat, Fine Woodworking, and Good Old Boat leave me with tears of frustration! We´ll be sailing up from the Marquesas to Alaska via Hawaii in 2014, and Port Townsend is on our itinerary on the way back south. Whether the boat will still float after being loaded with bronze goodies is an open question.
Yours aye,
Bill