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Old 27th May 2011, 05:40 PM   #14
Gavin Nugent
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Originally Posted by fearn
I'm going to have to disagree, speaking as the former kid who actually ground down a broken epee blade. To me, it's shaped, but I agree that the pictures are less than informative

In any case, Queequeg will have to answer what the cross-section is, especially near the base.

Here's a modern epee (image source) for comparison. Unfortunately it doesn't show the critical part where this blade was sharpened down.

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F
I could well have misread the images as cruciform where it might be triform.

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