The Care and Feeding of All Things Fencing

If you want to maintain your own equipment, or just understand how it works, this is the one book you will ever need. It ranges from low-cost and common fixes for elecrtric foils to setting up for a tournament.

It is an enjoyable read, and is more comprehensive than anything else available on the topics of tuning,  troubleshooting, and fixing problems with modern fencing equipment.

The Second edition has been thoroughly proof-read, and can be read on a screen or printed for a handy reference. 

This is the most comprehensive guide to armoring I've ever seen.  I wish that something like this had been available some twenty years ago when I first began to shift from fencer to armorer.

The range of material covered in extensive, from basic components (this is a blade) through maintenance, troubleshooting and repair of weapons all the way up to reel repairs and how to build your own fencing dummy.  If anything the shear volume of material covered can be overwhelming.

The material was extensively rearranged for the second edition.  This resulted in much better organization than in the first edition however one will occassionally stumble across a reference to what had been previous material in the first edition that now comes later in the book.  Still, this is minor.  My recommendations for the next edition (beyond more thorough proof reading to catch those misplaced references) would be to add an index and maybe make some of the pictures larger (although that last one really isn't a problem when viewing the book as a computer screen).