12-01-2006, 05:30 PM
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#1 | | Admin
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| Gold foil
Check this out:
Just got in some gold foil guards and decided that one needed to go on a gold blade.
Craig | 
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12-01-2006, 05:35 PM
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#2 | | Have Blazer, Will Travel
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| Shame that Gold Blade Fencing Center is so epee-centric then, eh? | |
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12-01-2006, 05:38 PM
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#3 | | Madness?
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| What? No gold handle? | 
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12-01-2006, 05:45 PM
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#4 | | Senior Member
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| Yeah, a spray-painted gold grip to go with everything to make a fully gold everything would definitely double the coolness value. | |
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12-01-2006, 05:54 PM
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#5 | | Senior Member
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| And then the socket would have to be gold.
And the pad. Tip tape too, most likely.
Then you'd have to change the name on the back of your lame to Midas. 
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12-01-2006, 05:55 PM
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#6 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by whtouche  Then you'd have to change the name on the back of your lame to Midas. | You could also get a shiny gold-colored lame, which PBT sells. hmm... | |
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12-01-2006, 05:55 PM
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#7 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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| Gooold-fencah!
Dee dee dee dee
He's the man
The man with the golden foil
( Still, it's a foil...  )
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12-01-2006, 05:59 PM
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#8 | | Madness?
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Originally Posted by whtouche And then the socket would have to be gold.
And the pad. Tip tape too, most likely.
Then you'd have to change the name on the back of your lame to Midas. | You can use clear tip tape and a clear pad, and a little gold spray paint could fix the socket. And you could use the LP lightweight lame. | |
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12-01-2006, 06:10 PM
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#9 | | Just Joined
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| We saw someone a couple of weeks ago with a gold-tipped, gold-bladed, and gold-guarded epee. Soon to be featured on "Pimp my Blade". | |
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12-01-2006, 06:12 PM
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#10 | | I am a man... A MEGA MAN!
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| I'm surprised "Thug" hasn't gotten in on this thread already.
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12-01-2006, 06:28 PM
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#11 | | Madness?
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Originally Posted by clagen We saw someone a couple of weeks ago with a gold-tipped, gold-bladed, and gold-guarded epee. Soon to be featured on "Pimp my Blade". | I would be worried that the anodization would increase the resistance in the guard enough that a guard hit might register valid. | |
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12-01-2006, 06:30 PM
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#12 | | Have Blazer, Will Travel
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| Apparently not. | |
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12-01-2006, 06:33 PM
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#13 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Inquartata Gooold-fencah!
Dee dee dee dee
He's the man
The man with the golden foil
( Still, it's a foil... ) | So that would make you Oddjob, right??? | |
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12-01-2006, 07:40 PM
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#14 | | Senior Member
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| A while back, Duelist UK had gold plated Epee tips. Just for show mainly, as a sort of gag gift. At least that's what I thought of them as. PC also had/had gold plated foil sockets. Speaking of Duelist UK though, I think they also made a complete "gold touch" epee for a couple of their elite sponsored fencers. Gold plated bell, Gold StM blade, gold plated tip, grip and socket.
Craig, Any other cool colors in the works that you can talk about? I would like to reserve some black or blue ones. A couple for foil and a couple for epee...
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12-01-2006, 08:20 PM
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#15 | | Senior Member
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| I've heard of people gold-plating their saber blades (or at least the tip) and aparently in an attempt to decrease the resistance (ie. make it easier to get a touch). I don't think this would have any significant impact though.
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12-01-2006, 10:24 PM
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#16 | | Member
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Originally Posted by Craig Check this out:
Just got in some gold foil guards and decided that one needed to go on a gold blade.
Craig | hey craig while you were unpacking all those lovely gold foil guards did you happen to notice the etoile blade i have on backorder? 
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12-02-2006, 12:29 AM
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#17 | | Member
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| I gots mah golden foil
always loyal
sweat and toil
golden foil!
it gots da bling bling
wit a diamond thing
fast like a bird wing
when i make a lunge
ZING!
it gots a golden blade
and a golden guard
yea man
dis foil be hard. | |
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12-02-2006, 12:42 AM
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#18 | | Senior Member
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| Wow erm...I looks....odd. Not in a good way though. Kind of ugly in my opinion. I would never use a golden weapon.
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12-02-2006, 01:09 AM
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#19 | | Senior Member
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| I thought the header on this thread referred to a Christmas gift wrapping issue of some sort. | |
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12-02-2006, 01:16 AM
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#20 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Sciurus-Rex I thought the header on this thread referred to a Christmas gift wrapping issue of some sort. | I guess one could see it that way, but seeing as this is a fencing forum I think most think of actual golden foils when they read the title. And for the most part I hear "foil" referred to as wrapping. Like wrappong paper or holiday wrapping and such. Not foil for the most part. But thats just me I guess
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