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View Poll Results: How long do your FIE blades tend to last? | |
0 - 3 months
|     | 4 | 6.78% | |
3 - 6 months
|    | 1 | 1.69% | |
6 - 9 months
|    | 13 | 22.03% | |
9 - 12 months
|    | 11 | 18.64% | |
over 12 months
|    | 30 | 50.85% | 
06-23-2005, 01:22 PM
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#1 | | Admin
Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 4,625
| Poll: How long does your FIE blade last?
A frequent topic for discussion is the cost/value of FIE vs. non-FIE blades. Please answer the poll with the average life expectancy of a FIE blade in your experience. (Foil and Epee only please.) | 
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06-23-2005, 02:16 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Boston, MA
Posts: 4,530
| Depends. BFs, ~6 months. Vniti, years. | |
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06-23-2005, 03:17 PM
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#3 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Sweden
Posts: 12,712
| I have an FIE Dynamo blade from 1996 still going strong up very nicely. (And yes, I do fence with it.  )
I also have a few StM FIE's from 2003 holding up very nicely. (Yes, I fence with them too.  )
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06-24-2005, 11:55 AM
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#4 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Chelmsford, MA
Posts: 1,870
| I've developed a habit of getting a blade and using it exclusively until it dies...
I had my coach pick up two blades for me while he was at JOs. I used one of them fairly exclusively and it failed in april sometime. The first weekend of May I purchased a BF blade the night before sectionals. Used it exclusively until it broke 3 weeks later (that annoyed me greatly). Just got two more blades... we'll see how long they survive... its getting expensive.
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06-24-2005, 05:56 PM
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#5 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Charlottesville VA
Posts: 3,066
| I used to get 3-9 months out of my BF blue FIE blades until I switched to the LP non-FIE blades. So far I have five of those, the oldest one being almost two years old and none of them have yet to break (although I am expecting one to go soon) so I don't bother with FIE blades anymore unless I get one as a gift or through some other odd twist of fate. Best of all... they are only about $50!
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06-25-2005, 02:31 PM
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#6 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: CC
Posts: 2,630
| With BF Whites, I'll go 2 months if I'm lucky.
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06-25-2005, 04:17 PM
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#7 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Sweden
Posts: 12,712
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Originally Posted by Army Fencer With BF Whites, I'll go 2 months if I'm lucky. | Sounds like you should change your forge of choice, Army...
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06-26-2005, 04:53 PM
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#8 | | Member
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Cleveland
Posts: 44
| I had a couple of "LM Premium" blades I picked up from Physical Chess when I first started in 1998. Both lasted me longer than 3 years. | |
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06-26-2005, 11:48 PM
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#9 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 1,216
| Closing on 9 months and it hasn't broken
*crosses fingers, touches wood, dances pagan dances*
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06-27-2005, 12:20 PM
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#10 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 815
| I bought three BF foils from PBT three years ago and they're still going strong. Also haven't changed much in feel over the past year or two. Quite nice. | |
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07-07-2005, 11:35 AM
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#11 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: London
Posts: 1,216
| My current blades:
BF Blue: 1 year, 8 months and still going.
StM: 1 year, 4 months and still going.
I do alternate between the two, so neither get used every day. On the other hand, at certain times during the season they do get used seven days a week ... | |
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07-08-2005, 12:46 AM
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#12 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: singapore
Posts: 416
| well my coach's FS lasted for 5 years and he is still using it...
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07-13-2005, 12:38 PM
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#13 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Wokingham, United Kingdom
Posts: 581
| My blades last ages. I have 5 épées and they're all the same - same guards, same handles, etc. - and I use Cartel BF blades. The only downside of buying 5 weapons the same and using them equally is that they tend to break within a short time of each other. Expensive, very very expensive! | |
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