Yea if you get non-specific specified grip - Just dismiss them - They're currently no good to you, just a waste of parts (well I mean you'll get exp but yeah)
It seems all alloys are scripted somehow above Titanium, while not quite actually being so.
Example:
If you have an Alloy hammer - any, alloy hammer - Customers will request anything "That hammer or below" - same with any other hammer - But even if its a Brass hammer - You'll get fairly high level requests, possibly even sometimes titanium requests.
But at the same time.
Brass can only mine so much
Bronze can only mine so much
and Steel can mine up to I believe Mithril - Not 100% sure on that - I might have tested and mentioned in a different post, but can't recollect it.
So they act like they're better metals than Titanium
They Perform like they're about what you'd expect from their alloy components
But then after all that.
They Sell like they don't exist yet. - No price seems to be set for them, despite being above titanium seemingly
And then there are times when it would seem like they /do/ have their own specific levels ... Like....
Okay remember I said brass sometimes gets Titanium requests?
Well if they requested "brass" (no specified metal) - despite brass allowing for titanium requests
You wouldn't be able to give them a titanium item.
but as long as they didn't specify grip/head - You could give them anything brass can mine. <- (I believe, and, that's what it /should/ be. what it can mine is what it can sell and what customers should ask for, nothing more)
Anywho.
If they break into specifics of head/grip - 9/10 of the times, just send them away, they usually not worth the trouble.
Switching to a Mithril/Titanium/Etc hammer may reduce the number of "blank" requests you get - This is both a blessing and a curse - as a nonspecific-unspecified request can be milked for all the possible coins - and sometimes the requests you want can be few and far inbetween. - and of course, the thing we were just talking about is the curse.