07-21-2006, 05:53 PM
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#1 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: SoCal
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| Requiem for a blade...
I just have to comment that I finally broke my practice (dry) STM foil blade. Rest in pieces...
Why am I bummed by this? Well, I bought the blade as near as I can reconstruct this in about 1985-1986. Its been my primary practice blade for 20 years. Now, it helped I was out of the sport for a decade in the middle.. but it was an amazingly old blade to be in regular use.
Broken 15 July in a bout with one of the nationally rated Vet 50 fencers... | 
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07-21-2006, 08:08 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Cartersville, GA
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| Are you looking for condolences or snide comments? I think you're going to get both. 
On a serious note, are you going to frame, bury, or cremate what's left of your good friend? Sound like some sort of respectful memorialization is in order.
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07-22-2006, 01:10 AM
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#3 | | Have Blazer, Will Travel
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Austin, TX
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| How about soldering it back together...  | 
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07-22-2006, 01:52 PM
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#4 | | Scrub
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Miami
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| Viking funeral | |
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07-22-2006, 02:16 PM
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#5 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
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Originally Posted by HDG Viking funeral | It's a Ukrianinan blade (or 'Soviet' as it was back then) -- I'm sure needle can come up with a suitable burial ceremony. 
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07-22-2006, 02:47 PM
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#6 | | Scrub
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Originally Posted by Zilverzmurfen It's a Ukrianinan blade (or 'Soviet' as it was back then) -- I'm sure needle can come up with a suitable burial ceremony. | I was rather less concerned about cultural authenticity than about a suitable end for a warrior. | |
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07-22-2006, 08:01 PM
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#7 | | Have Blazer, Will Travel
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| There were plenty of Scandanavians in the Kievian Rus, back before Russia was around. For that matter, I believe it was King Charles XII of Sweden who invaded the Ukraine, slightly more recently. There's plenty of cultural background to justify burning a very small ship around this blade. The only trick is figuring out how to fit your helmet around the horns on your head. | |
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07-23-2006, 12:53 AM
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#8 | | Bitter young coach
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Originally Posted by KD5MDK How about soldering it back together... | We can rebuild him, we have the technology...
Seriously, give it a shot. Might make a nice thing to hang over the mantle.
I know how you feel, I still have my first FIE blade and I'm very protective of it for sentimental reasons (still works and passes weights and shims, too.)
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07-23-2006, 03:30 AM
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#9 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
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Originally Posted by RITFencing (still works and passes weights and shims, too.) | Not that that has anything to do with the condition of the actual blade...
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07-23-2006, 04:11 AM
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#10 | | Have Blazer, Will Travel
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| Sure it does. If it was broken, I wouldn't test his weight or shims, so he wouldn't know, officially. | |
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07-23-2006, 10:16 AM
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#11 | | Senior Member
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| Give it to that elf guy from the Lord of the Rings.
But don't expect a speedy turn around.
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08-01-2006, 02:18 AM
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#12 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: no way am I telling you
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| I still have the pieces from my first blade. (STM foil) I took the barrel off of it and made it into a neclase which I now never take off. Strange, I know, but it was my first blade, and I was wrather attached to it. | |
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