For those building saltwater rods, one thing I found useful in reference to hookkeeps is using a rec saltwater snakeguide...I use size 2....I didnt invent this, saw it on a rod in Texas and liked the idea....I personally dont perfer there guides, on a baitcaster. However if you are putting titanium guides on a rod for saltwater, make sence to make the hook keep as corrosion resistent as possible. Yes, I know there titanium alloy.

Good thought.
I have some 16g titanium V6 alloy and 304 stainless wire I was using to bend them up from,,,,, but prefab is certainly easier sometimes.
If you want to play with it a bit, you can get anodized titanium wire in colors as well. Not as bright or varied in colors as anodized aluminum, but it adds some choices.

Yeah, colors would be great...Would be interested in hearing the bending process, also where can you by the anodized titanium in color? Any place on line?

You can anodize Titanium yourself. I believe if you search .org fr teh user name ED SINN, it should pop up. MAybe anodizing Titanium too. TEHre's instructions on Google on how to rig it up yourself.

I bel;iev eanodized titanium is sold to teh knife makers, do a Google, it should pop righ tup.

Jeffrey,,,,, I have tripped over several places, but I like the lines that [theringlord.com] carry. One of the few places that has square stainless wire too.

Something as simple as a hook keeper is nothing to bend up with just a pair of needle nose pliers. You want to play with more compilcated things, then there are wire forming tools. So far I have either just formed with pliers, around objects like bolt heads, or using nails in a piece of wood as a jig. There are some craft wire forming jigs that basically look like a grid of holes in an aluminum plate, and insertable metal dowel pins that go in those holes. Nice idea, and they are fine for soft and light wire I guess, but have found they work poorly for anything over about 20 gauge in steel and titanium.

Yeah Billy,,, I saw roll your own anodizing instructions too. Contemplated it for a bit last Winter, but it appears you need to have pretty decent control to get a particular color. Even the guys who do it for a living have some trouble with that. Anodizing aluminum is far simpler in comparison, as there you just add a dye for the color you want. Figured for as little of the stuff as I would play with, it wasn't worth the hassle to do it myself.

I have sorta wondered about doing my own TiN plating though. Saw a nice little vacuum chamber/oven at a place that handles second hand cleanroom equipment. Just would need to add a laser (and crucible I think), and TiN coating at home should be possible. I'd have a bit more use for that than anodizing. In no time flat I'd be plating all the reel parts I could, and probably a lot of stuff in the tackle bag too. Just another thing in the LONG list of possible to-do's. :-)