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French
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Standard German
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German V2A
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Estoc Screwless
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03-15-2005, 09:10 PM
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#21 | | Armorer
Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Long Beach, CA / Las Vegas
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Originally Posted by Purple Fencer Those are Sport 7 tips...same ones I sell I think American Fencers sells Prieur, and they're not quite compatible. | It has been a long time since American Fencers sold Prieur Foil points. They did use HPK as their standard but they switched to Sport 7 over 2 years ago.
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03-15-2005, 11:48 PM
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#22 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Pacoima, ca USA
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Originally Posted by DHCJr It has been a long time since American Fencers sold Prieur Foil points. They did use HPK as their standard but they switched to Sport 7 over 2 years ago. | Shows what I know about my competitors (like I'm going to give Matthew grey hairs?)
As far as the Germam point question....all the German points Fencing Post (and I) sell are Uhlmann...not all german points are Uhlmann, tho., | |
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03-22-2005, 03:14 AM
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#23 | | Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Austin, TX
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Originally Posted by mrbiggs I use German tips because I'm too cheap to get anything fancier, and I hate screwing the French screws into the little holes. | Having learned to assemble foils at club today, I'm going to agree with this. The annoyance of lining up the holes was a bit more than my paitence could handle at the time. | |
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03-23-2005, 05:19 PM
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#24 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Neil The only problem the Leon Paul tips have is a tendency to give intermittent off target lights. | very true for the old design but I have been using the GT tips recently and so far they seem to have fixed the old LP tip problems (sticky tips & off targets). | |
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03-23-2005, 05:59 PM
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#25 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Charlottesville VA
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| The only times I have seen the new LP GT foil points be erratic at all is if the screws are over or under tightened. This can lead to broken contact or stuck tips but it is less the fault of the point and more the fault of the person assembling them. Used correctly with reasonable maintence, other than replacing springs (they seem to go through them at a slightly higher rate than the German points, mainly due to less resistance and the smoother travel of the LP tips I would guess) I have found them to be the most reliable of the big three point designs (LP, German and French).
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