What are ice skate blades made out of? can they be made out of titanium?

Question

What are ice skate blades made out of? can they be made out of titanium?

Answer 1

Figure skating blades are  made of tempered steel, coated with a high-quality chrome. Lightweight alloy blades are becoming very  popular among  high-level skaters.

The blades are about 3/16 inch (4 mm) thick and may have a slightly tapered cross-section

I don't think they can be titanium

Answer 2

There is a website for a company called Titanium Beach that was putting out a semi-custom blade called "Pegasus" - made of a titanium alloy.  But as the updates are "old", I don't know if the company or the (expensive) product ever really took off.  

http://www.tibeachtech.com/

Most blades are made from steel that vary in carbon content, depending on the blade being manufactured (higher/better grade steel for more "advanced" blades).  After the different blade "parts" are joined together, it is then chrome plated.  You can read here on the process:

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/sports/skating/...

      

Paramount blades are machined with one solid piece of aluminum and a high-grade stainless steel runner.  They say it's lighter but stronger than the traditional blades (and requires less sharpenings).

http://www.ultimateskate.com/paramount-s...

http://www.usfigureskating.org/Magazine....

I don't know much about this company, but it claims it's the only company that constructs figure blades entirely of stainless steel.  http://stepskates.com/stepskates.html

Hope that helps!