Most expensive lame ever?

[erooMynohtnA]

http://www.tcafencing.com/catalog/pr...roducts_id=340

I was poking around Triplette and I saw that. Is it the most expensive foil lame on the market now? I can't think of anything approaching it. Also, WTF, why so expensive and is it awesome (durable)?

[mrbiggs]

Apparently it's expensive because it contains silver. Which is cool, but I don't know how effective it would be.

[erooMynohtnA]

I imagine it's some kind of silver metalicized thread. Silver is an excellent conductor.

Secret: Silver's not terribly expensive.

[AdamH]

If this is one of the lightweight lames that are conductive due to having a single thread running through them, then if it breaks, the whole lame is dead. Patching, silver paste is probably not going help.

[yeoldearmourer]

The most expensive lame's I have seen was the Mexican women foil team there lame's were made out of gold thread that read 0 ohms.

[qatet]

I love that you need special sizing (read - PRICING) for anything above a 42. I'm not sure about for the boys, but I'm a woman who wears a 42 and I'm not exactly big.

[Coldfire]

I love that you need special sizing (read - PRICING) for anything above a 42. I'm not sure about for the boys, but I'm a woman who wears a 42 and I'm not exactly big.

I'm 14 and I wear a 42....and I'm not big. I'm thinking most people would need sizes bigger than that. Kind of ridiculous. They just want all of our monies

[KD5MDK]

It doesn't compare too much to sabre lames...

[Inquartata]

I was poking around Triplette and I saw that. Is it the most expensive foil lame on the market now?

Nope. American Fencers Supply prices their foil lamés at $199, three dollars more than the Triplette one.

As KD5MDK notes, you guys have it easy in this department; the best sabre lamés start at over $200 and go up from there.

[pigeonmeister]

In the UK (where we have to pay VAT) the LP light weight foil lame is £85. That's only $30 less than the triplette and you don't get any silver!

[Joe biebel]

I love that you need special sizing (read - PRICING) for anything above a 42. I'm not sure about for the boys, but I'm a woman who wears a 42 and I'm not exactly big.

I don't know for sure, but I think Triplette made items, use American sizing as opposed to European. For instance, my suitcoats are a 42 and my European fencing jackets are a 52.

I don't know where you live, standards are different everywhere, but where I live, a woman with a 42 inch chest measurement gets a lot of attention, wanted or not.

[VorpalCat]

I don't know where you live, standards are different everywhere, but where I live, a woman with a 42 inch chest measurement gets a lot of attention, wanted or not.

Chest measurement DNE jacket size. I wear a 42 (Absolute, at least) and I'm definitely not curvy!