What about titanium as a Luger frame material??

[G.T.]

Hi Guys! I have a small piece of cut off waste titanium from and artificial knee joint casting.... really is amazing ...looks like polished stainless, but weighs pratically nothing! Anyway... i took my small ballpeen hammer and got after it... It did deform rather rapidly.... not very far, but very soon.. Now this is not too good a test, as I am not using anything to compare too, but, you can beat on a drill bit all day long, (with my little hammer)and hardly mark it... So, that brings up this question... what is hard enough??? where on the rockwell scale would you have to be, to make a frame last?? Any material would have to have a minimum resistance to deformation to be feasible, as would the design... maybe titanium, with stainless inserts??? On the towers, and frame back? til...lat'r...GT