Pricing advice and other help from my fellow vendors/armorers

**Purple Fencer** · 03-12-2008 11:20 AM

Here's a link to a pic of the stamp...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...dsop/blade.jpg

**Purple Fencer** · 03-12-2008 02:58 PM

Just a little FYI...I sent Dan DeChaine a pic of the stamp and asked why it wasn't on the FIE list....his reply:

"The blade factories in Lougansk had a cash-flow problem for a few years during the '90s. During those years they made no maraging blades due to the high price of the raw stock. The FIE rule on blade approval includes the provision that if a manufacturer fails to have his blades submitted for retest at least two times in any five-year period, the brand will be removed from the list."

**needle** · 03-14-2008 03:13 PM

BTW, Lugansk factory, to my knowledge, is now owned by StM.

**Purple Fencer** · 03-17-2008 12:53 AM

Originally Posted by needle

BTW, Lugansk factory, to my knowledge, is now owned by StM.

Hmmm....if true, I didn't know that.

I realized yesterday that I probably overpriced the blades, considering their age.

Howzabout $80 each? That's in line with StM maragings...lemme know.

**needle** · 03-17-2008 01:13 AM

Originally Posted by Purple Fencer

Hmmm....if true, I didn't know that.

Here's some info on that in English :

Since January, 1st, 2007 StM® has exclusive rights for all deliveries of Dynamo-Lugansk production.

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