05-10-2004, 11:25 PM
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#1 | | Senior Member
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| What blades do you use?
Just out of interest what blades do you guys use?  | 
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05-11-2004, 12:55 AM
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#2 | | Senior Member
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| BF blue maraging.
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Last edited by grphiw; 05-11-2004 at 10:36 PM.
Reason: Thanks to The One for correcting me...
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05-11-2004, 01:00 AM
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#3 | | Senior Member
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| BF Maraging
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05-11-2004, 05:13 AM
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#4 | | Senior Member
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| bf blue maraging, leon paul non-maraging, france lames maraging, allstar non-maraging, and a tca bf gold maraging. i like them all, some are stiffer than others, some have different balance and weight, but i like this... i can fence different people with different styles different ways. | |
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05-11-2004, 05:16 AM
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Originally Posted by grphiw Blue Gauntlet maraging. | There isn't a blue gauntlet maraging blade. . . They just sell maraging blades made by other companies (I believe).
I use white foil BF's. . . They're cheaper than the blues, and pretty darn close to them in quality.
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05-11-2004, 11:53 AM
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#6 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Greensboro, NC
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| Dinamo foil blades. I specify that I want flexible blades when I order them. I've got one blade thats so springy that I think the typical 10 year old could flick to mid-spine like the best German Olympian.
I really wish I had my old Prieur blades from about ten years back, though. They were really strong in the forte for good beats and parries, but soft enough in the feeble to make nice thrown point actions (actually some of the times my opponents didn't even realize they'd been hit). Blades today seem either too rebar like or too whippy, so I just err on the side of "whippiness". | |
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05-11-2004, 12:10 PM
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#7 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Mobile, Ala.
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| I have 3 foils with Viniti maraging blades and 1 Epee with a Viniti maraging blade. The foil blades I bought from Blue Guantlet, and the epee blade was from SwordMasters. The three foil blades are in excellent shape after about 6 months of heavy fencing. The epee I haven't had as long, but I like it. I'm also considering using the Triplette BF maraging blade for epees.
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05-11-2004, 12:28 PM
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#8 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: New England/DC
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| I asked my coach for the stiffest epee blades he could find and he got me some BF 2000 white blades. I love them. | |
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05-11-2004, 12:55 PM
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#9 | | The Judge
Join Date: Feb 2003
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| uhlmann bf blue epees
though i'm getting discouraged, they've been breaking reasonably frequently on me as of late and i'm looking for a reasonable replacement. i don't fence a hard game, either. they just take a radical bend once in a blue moon and don't let it go. | |
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05-11-2004, 01:24 PM
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#10 | | Senior Member
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| 3 Vniti's for foil, with a Prieur blue and a StM Rainbow FIE as backups. For epee I use 2 BF FIE Blues and a Leon Paul non FIE with a Vniti FIE as a backup. For Saber I like the StM non-fie but the SG's are cheap and very light.
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05-11-2004, 01:25 PM
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| Hard BF maraging white epee blades or "soft" BF maraging blue epee blades.
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05-11-2004, 02:06 PM
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| S/M Ukrainian (horrible) thingies...
Cheap and available... | |
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05-11-2004, 02:08 PM
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| Those PBT non-fie blades.... they hold pretty good.
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05-11-2004, 02:45 PM
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#14 | | Senior Member
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| I used to swear by StM sabre blades, but I've decided they're too soft and now favor blue gauntlet's BG. At 18 dollars a piece they're cheap, and surprisingly durable.
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05-11-2004, 03:45 PM
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#15 | | Senior Member
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| how is the durability on the tca blue maraging epee blades? i have a tendence to break my arm when i lunge and i get weird bends alot.
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05-11-2004, 03:48 PM
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#16 | | The Judge
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Originally Posted by ShadowHuntr how is the durability on the tca blue maraging epee blades? i have a tendence to break my arm when i lunge and i get weird bends alot. | i don't know but i'm starting to wonder if i should purchase one in order to find out, anyway. if they're bad, i'll have a backup (or broken :P) weapon. if they're good, i'll have found a cheaper weapon.
if i do this, i'll let you know. | |
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05-11-2004, 04:00 PM
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#17 | | Senior Member
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| TCA is the US distributer for BF blades. They are the same as the Uhlmann BF blades with a different stamp.
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05-11-2004, 04:09 PM
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#18 | | Senior Member
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| WKC maraging epee when I can get them, BF gold and Old Leon Paul's when I can't.
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05-11-2004, 04:26 PM
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#19 | | The Judge
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Originally Posted by DangerMouse TCA is the US distributer for BF blades. They are the same as the Uhlmann BF blades with a different stamp. | uhlmann gets first pick of the blades to stamp.
triplette is down the line, their average blade quality is lower. | |
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05-11-2004, 06:20 PM
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#20 | | Senior Member
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| I use SG Super blades. They don't bust my budget, and last me about a year apiece. I have heard people don't normally like them, though. | |
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