Italian Weapon Parts at American Fencers Supply

May 19, 2006
FROM AMERICAN FENCERS PRESS RELEASE:
Tom Rockwell's hand-made Italian hilt pieces and more, exclusively at AFS!

AFS is proud to offer Tom Rockwell's hand-made hilt pieces as the center-piece of their new classical fencing line!

Tom Rockwell, the talented designer and machinist known for his meticulous false-ricassos, Italian hilts and weighty French style pommels, has selected AFS as his exclusive distributor.
 Tom's work is well known and respected in the Classical Fencing community and has filled a void created by the lack of true-ricasso Italian style foil and epee blades.  Tom's false ricassos (#305, $10.00) allow those with Italian hilts to use French style blades and his false-ricassos with quillions (#305Q, $40.00) and grips and pommels (#306G, $9.50 and #337, $8.50) allow  people with French foils to convert their foils to an Italian style weapon. 
 AFS will offer complete Italian false-ricasso weapons (#10 foil, $95.00, #49, epee, $105.00) using Tom's hand-made parts with AFS's guards and blades for those who want to use a traditional Italian weapon. 
 Look for the new "Classical Fencing" category on our web site in the "Fencing" section!