01-22-2007, 12:30 AM
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#1 | | Le Picador
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Madison, WI
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| Most expensive lame ever?
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)? | 
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01-22-2007, 01:32 AM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: MA
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| Apparently it's expensive because it contains silver. Which is cool, but I don't know how effective it would be. | 
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01-22-2007, 02:02 AM
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#3 | | Le Picador
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Madison, WI
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| I imagine it's some kind of silver metalicized thread. Silver is an excellent conductor.
Secret: Silver's not terribly expensive. | |
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01-22-2007, 06:46 AM
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#4 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Scotland
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| 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. | |
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01-22-2007, 10:07 AM
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#5 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Mountain Home ID
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| 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.
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01-22-2007, 10:14 AM
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#6 | | Senior Member
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| 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. | |
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01-22-2007, 10:24 AM
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#7 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by 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. | 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  | |
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01-22-2007, 10:53 AM
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#8 | | Moderator
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| It doesn't compare too much to sabre lames... | |
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01-22-2007, 11:47 AM
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#9 | | Curmudgeon Emeritus
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Originally Posted by erooMynohtnA 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.
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01-22-2007, 12:01 PM
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#10 | | Senior Member
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| 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!
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01-23-2007, 10:23 AM
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#11 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by 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. |
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.
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01-24-2007, 10:31 AM
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#12 | | Feline Groovy
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: SE VA
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Originally Posted by Joe biebel 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! | |
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