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Acronyms, Terms, etc. This will be a "working post" but since the terms have come up a few times and some initials have cross-pollinated, I figured this would be a valuable guide. Think of it as the equipment discussion style manual.
Post your suggestions to this thread and I'll incorporate them into this post.
Forges - The following initials are reserved for forges/manufacturers of fencing blades.
BF: Blaise Frêres
DN: Dinamo
FL: France Lames
LP: Leon Paul
StM: StM
VN: Vniti
Equipment Vendors and Manufacturers:
Allstar: Allstar brand fencing equipment. Sold through Blade/PC
Blade: Blade Fencing (NY)
BG: Blue Gauntlet
FP: The Fencing Post (CA)
AmFence: American Fencers Supply (CA)
Leon Paul: Leon Paul
LPUSA: Leon Paul USA
PC: Physical Chess
PBT: PBT (Hungary) or FencePBT (US Vendor)
Uhlmann: Brand of fencing equipment (uniforms, masks, etc.). Sold through various US vendors.
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BF: Blaise Frêres
Equipment vendors:
Allstar
Uhlmann With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter
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FS: Scaroni Forge, now operated by Uhlmann
-B :) "Oh but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!"
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Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo,
Aureli pathetice et cinaede Furi
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crap
this was one of my sections on the FAQ i was cooking up... :-X
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BTW, what is the TM stamp on BF blades about? If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time~Proust
~The purpose of the ninja is to flip out and kill people.
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 Originally Posted by telkanuru What is "Hostun Plus"? Hostin Plus.
It was one of the various lines of blades made by France Lame. Higher quality. I know my foil teammates when I was in college loved them for some reason (don't remember if it was how they handled, flexibility, longetivity, or some combination of the above factors).
-B :) "Oh but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!"
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i owned two hostin plus epee blades. they served me well while i owned them for 50$ weapons.
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JL -- Chinese Forge and equipment manufacturer
S -- Santelli
N -- Negrini
I'd recommend AFS for American Fencers Supply instead of AmFence
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I know it's been suggested before, but I think post should contain pics of forgers "marks". It'd be great together with the brand names.
I have a blade (russian/ukrainian/other) that I don't know who manufactured. Someone on this forum (DHCJr?) would surely know but, alas, I don't have a camera to take a pic of it. It is, however, my fave blade out of my non-FIE ones.
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If we're voting, I'd side with AmFence, myself.
TCA: Triplette Competition Arms
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HOM: H.O.M. Fencing Supply (CA)
Gotta push myself, y'know!!
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Originally Posted by Craig This will be a "working post" but since the terms have come up a few times and some initials have cross-pollinated, I figured this would be a valuable guide. Think of it as the equipment discussion style manual.
Post your suggestions to this thread and I'll incorporate them into this post.
Forges - The following initials are reserved for forges/manufacturers of fencing blades.
BF: Blaise Frêres
DN: Dinamo
FL: France Lames
LP: Leon Paul
StM: StM
VN: Vniti
RP? Maybe PR, they are kind of overlapped. It's stamped on an OLD epee blade.
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Equipment Vendor
Did we forget Duellist on purpose?
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Originally Posted by The Armourer Equipment Vendor
Did we forget Duellist on purpose? And what about Cartel..?
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Do we typically abbreviate either Duellist or Cartel? This isn't a list of equipment manufacturers or vendors, it's a list of acronyms and terms. Given that, perhaps we should include on the thread FIE, USFA, BFA, BAF, USFCA, NCAA, NIWFA, IFA, etc.
-B :) "Oh but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!"
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Does anyone know which forge was "RP" or "PR"?
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bought a new epee from duellist the weekend and haven't noticed the forgers mark before it's NSN!!! any ideas??
I did try and get a pic on my digital camera but it wont focus in enough erm....parry ...riposte....oops...argh!!....run awwaaayyyy!!!
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did we just forget Prieur: PR
-Tre' Ref-"Pool 1: Molly"
Me-"It's Molloy, with an OY"
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