Fencing Skills - Rewiring an Epee

[@ArthursOlympicCountdown]

A video like this was well overdue!

[@Eignerartig]

I always put the glue into the blade and wait 3 minutes before I line in the wires. So I have an additional isolation between the wires and the blade, because sometimes the textile isolation of the wires is insufficient. And it sticks the wires better in its position. After that I twirl the wire from back of the tang towards the blade so the wire holds itself in position. For bending the blade I use a a cord with a narrow loop on one end and small hook on the other end. I put the loop over the tang then bend the blade and hook the hook into the barrel. The blade then looks like a bow with the cord as its string and I can put it anywhere for drying over night. No risk of anyone opening the door and accidentally tearing down the bended blade.

[@wakayamaenglish]

Fantastic video. Long needed.

[@JChen91yy]

thanks!!!! saw some usefull tricks looks like new! in stead of the door we use a wooden block plus a rope

[@tianhezhang8959]

You must be used BSI Adhesives BSI-120 and BSI-151

[@tejasingh6598]

What kind of glue you use?

[@gethinap]

Or bend the blade using a chain instead of the door frame.

[@samsignorelli]

I'd be VERY careful of using a fibreglass wheel to clean the groove...that will actually cut through the steel. A diamond wheel does the cleaning job just fine and does not cut through the blade. There are also a lot of things missing from the vid. It's generally good, but you skip over a number of things like leveling the contacts, bending the blade backwards to look for popouts, properly stripping the wire for assembly, etc. I've lost count of how many foils and epees I've rewired over the years....when yo do as many as I do, you learn things.