what would your ultimate fencing weapon be?

[the reluctant fencer]

Since I am an epee fencer I'll list my ultimate weapon.
I would like a blade slightly softer than a BF FIE and slightly lighter. I have used about 10 BF FIE blades until they gave up the ghost and really liked them. I now want to try something that is a little different but not too flexible. . I have a new STM FIE blade that I am about to build and it seems good. I hope my STM stays rather stiff through use so I'll see how long it lasts.
A bellguard that has the weapon hole repositioned a little higher so that I have a little better coverage on my hand. A custom poured aluminium grip that is polished to a mirror finish.
A connector that is further down into the bellguard than the regular connectors to keep it out of the way and out of enemy view. ( I have had opponets hit my connector with the cheap plastic clip)
For a Tip I would get a German and polish the inside of the barrel and outside of the tip. I would have an adjustable contact spring mount like the SG one but actually works and doesn't back out.
I would like a screwless tip but haven't used any that have withstood any flicks after more than 5-10 bouts of hard use.

What would you use to build the ultimate weapon? Foil and Sabre I don't know about but it can't be too different for foil. I guess for sabre you want the lightest, most flexible blade.

I need to figure out where I can get steel screws for the preiur (spelling?) body cords.
I would like to see what everyone else uses for their epee setups.

[keropie]

Most likely your dream weapon wouldn't be legal, fwiw. Mainly/only because of the guard, in that most epee guards are as much distorted (from centered hole) as legal. But other than that... sounds fine

Being a foilist, I'll go w/ a BF blue fie blade, german v2a tip, felt thumb pad, german socket, uhlmann/allstar small visconti grip, outside hex nut, black or blue tip tape, german wire (duh), 110mm steel guard, non rolled. Yep. Have two of them, and BF white, and three Vniti's with essentially the same parts (some different grip manufacturers)

[twisterfencing]

I'm old school.

Give me a tire tool and I'm done.

No guard, no grip, no pad, no connector, no wires, no tips,
Just a tire tool!

Gary Spruill

[General Sweetpants]

My staff of loooooove!

[RebelFencer]

Mine would to +8 lightning damage and allow my materia to gain experience, that's for sure!

[keropie]

Originally Posted by General Sweetpants

My staff of loooooove!

So you'd be unarmed?

[sabreur]

Originally Posted by keropie

So you'd be unarmed?

Or perhaps, unmanned.

[the reluctant fencer]

I was thinking that since the hole in the bellguard is already offset just rotate the bellguard clockwise 25 degrees from what it is normally at when you are looking at the weapon from behind. Right now I have that STM blade that I am building. I have a brand new tip and it will be polished. My custom modified grip is mostly polished after that thread I had a while back about it. I would like to make a mold and pour my own grip. I don't care for the light weight bellguards since they bend too easily and I don't like having to straighten them out.

[BySword]

if you rotate you bell guard for just 25 degree, you will have to modify the hole on your bell guard, otherwise, if you fit your tang

[the reluctant fencer]

exactly. Just drill out the rivets and TIG-AC weld it rather than using rivets.

[Joe biebel]

Originally Posted by sabreur

Or perhaps, unmanned.

Or perhaps, unhanded.

[chefencer]

Originally Posted by Joe biebel

Or perhaps, unhanded.

Originally Posted by sabreur

Or perhaps, unmanned.

Originally Posted by keropie

So you'd be unarmed?

*clapping* Props all around!!!!! Very Niceeeeee!

[mrbiggs]

Originally Posted by BySword

if you rotate you bell guard for just 25 degree, you will have to modify the hole on your bell guard, otherwise, if you fit your tang

Not necessarily. I have a couple crappy epee bellguards that can be rotated all the way around if my handle is loose.

[KD5MDK]

Rebar, mounted on a steel guard with expanded knucklebow. And I'd probably switch to Italian bayonet, as well.

[chefencer]

Originally Posted by KD5MDK

Rebar, mounted on a steel guard with expanded knucklebow. And I'd probably switch to Italian bayonet, as well.

A bit whippy, don't you think? I wouldn't want you smacking your own elbow all the time...

[Zilverzmurfen]

Originally Posted by the reluctant fencer

I don't care for the light weight bellguards since they bend too easily and I don't like having to straighten them out.

You clearly have not tried the light-weight aluminium-titanium alloy guards. They ruuuuule.

[Monash_Armourer]

A replica daisho (katana and wakizashi), made using a highly specialised Osmium Boride based steel with a carbon-nanotube strengthened core, white gold filled etchings along the blade, an inverse circle fractal pattern tsuba, gloss white saya with black inked designs (of which nothing comes to mind at the moment), white spider silk wrapped over a landscape design menuki on sikkita spruce tsuka (and a matching Naginata thrown in for good measure).

Or does it have to be FIE?

Darcy.

[epeeisky]

Originally Posted by Zilverzmurfen

You clearly have not tried the light-weight aluminium-titanium alloy guards. They ruuuuule.

I can't afford those. Instead, I use the ACG light bellgaurds from BG, and they are lightweigt and do not take dents. In the year that I had the bellgaurd it has not taken a single dent. The biggest thing about them is that they are $8 USD compared to the $22 USD for the Vniti or Uhlman.

[keropie]

Perhaps the Point of View Gun (tm), so that some people (here and elsewhere) can understand how 'unorthodox' they are . . .

[the reluctant fencer]

yeah...titanium-aluminium..ther may be a layer 1 atom thick oftitanium to keep it from oxidizing...it is just a regular aluminium bellguard...with no riveted parts