Brand of sabre blades you prefer?

[Craig]

We received a few StM "flat" blades (not the "Y" cross section) that seem to be s2000 stiff, but don't have s-2000 marked on them.

Craig

[headcut]

Sounds like the Scaroni blade Santelli used to carry.

Not sure what blade it was but that does sound familiar. Here is an excerpt that I found online that reinforces what I remember...

"... back then Coach Schmitter bought all of his team fencing equipment exclusively from Santelli fencing gear in New York. The Santelli's Italian saber blades were reputed to be some of the best. One summer, Santelli agreed to give fencing lessons to coach Schmitter as a professional courtesy so that Schmitter might pass on the Santelli fencing form and style to better teach MSU students, the direct and most outstanding of them being Fred Freiheit. At the time, Georgio Santelli was a famous olympic fencer and the son of Italio Santelli who is credited with bringing modern sabre fencing to Hungary after which the Hungarians began to dominate olympic saber fencing."

I remember fencing against Fred Freiheit in practice and in the yearly Alumni Fencing meets at MSU. Great sabre fencer! I couldn't beat him. The above paragraph also explains to me why Coach Schmitter seemed to always have a very good sabre team. I never understood why until now. So, yeah, maybe those are Scaroni blades...

Here is the link to the full page to the quote above:
http://www.msu.edu/%7Eoberg/fencing/Schmitter.html

[Delta]

I like the StM anodized blades...Down here, the humidity can kill a regular blade pretty quickly.