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Thursday, October 25, 2012
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
POINTS OF BALANCE
I have just recently experimented with the point of balance (center of gravity) of some of my electric foils.
I have a couple of foils from way,way back when, which are usefully bent but rather heavy compared with the modern day blades. The point of balance on these are was round 3-4” in front of the guard. Ideally it should be around 1” to make the weapon marginally point heavy. As these old blades had the slotted collet and grove tangs my options were limited. I found that if I taped a selection of 1/2” nuts to the end of the pommel I could achieve the shift of weight required and still stay within the 1100mm overall length restriction.
The difference in the weapons is really noticeable, especially when using the fingers to move the point.
It is really effective on the newer lighter blades and it has turned what were unbalanced and unwieldy swords in to something I can use comfortably.
I had it easy as I use the French grip but I believe you can get counter balance weights for orthopedic grips as well.
Try it and let me know how you get on.
I have a couple of foils from way,way back when, which are usefully bent but rather heavy compared with the modern day blades. The point of balance on these are was round 3-4” in front of the guard. Ideally it should be around 1” to make the weapon marginally point heavy. As these old blades had the slotted collet and grove tangs my options were limited. I found that if I taped a selection of 1/2” nuts to the end of the pommel I could achieve the shift of weight required and still stay within the 1100mm overall length restriction.
The difference in the weapons is really noticeable, especially when using the fingers to move the point.
It is really effective on the newer lighter blades and it has turned what were unbalanced and unwieldy swords in to something I can use comfortably.
I had it easy as I use the French grip but I believe you can get counter balance weights for orthopedic grips as well.
Try it and let me know how you get on.
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