Fiberglass and pvc
Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 6:37 am
I have a quick question about the difference between fiberglass cored blues and pvc cored blues. I have made innumerable pvc blues and just a few fiberglass.
I host my own events and provide and maintain all equipment for anyone who shows up (enough gear to equip 30+ people). As a result, within my 1h blues, I have a healthy mix of different lengths of both pvc and fiberglass swords.
An issue that has been coming up with my blue users is that the fiberglass swords do not have the weight to successfully parry a strong strike from anyone using a pvc sword. The poor speedy fiberglass guys just have their strikes batted away or their deflections hit to the side.
I use regular 1/2" or 3/4" pvc for my blues and use 3/8" fiberglass for my fiberglass swords. In my most recent constructions I tried using a single fiberglass core to make them as fast as possible yet I had the weight issue that I mentioned above. Am I building them wrong or something?
I tried to provide a link to the fiberglass rods I buy but it seems I cant find it. They are gray, 3/8" solid rods that come in 48" sections that I obviously trim to desired lengths.
I host my own events and provide and maintain all equipment for anyone who shows up (enough gear to equip 30+ people). As a result, within my 1h blues, I have a healthy mix of different lengths of both pvc and fiberglass swords.
An issue that has been coming up with my blue users is that the fiberglass swords do not have the weight to successfully parry a strong strike from anyone using a pvc sword. The poor speedy fiberglass guys just have their strikes batted away or their deflections hit to the side.
I use regular 1/2" or 3/4" pvc for my blues and use 3/8" fiberglass for my fiberglass swords. In my most recent constructions I tried using a single fiberglass core to make them as fast as possible yet I had the weight issue that I mentioned above. Am I building them wrong or something?
I tried to provide a link to the fiberglass rods I buy but it seems I cant find it. They are gray, 3/8" solid rods that come in 48" sections that I obviously trim to desired lengths.