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Unfortunately (or fortunately as the case may be)I have no direct connection to the attached picture as it was originally posted by the ?danish? fencing discussion group, so I will not be able to get a better view of the damage unless they decide to post something better ontheir web site...

This comes from a Sport Fencing discussion group. Apparently there was a recent failure of a polycarbonate fencing mask in europe, and one of the possible claimed causes of this failure was the cyclical cooling and re-warming of the material from airline storage to room temperatures. This...

"Most likely someone 'heard' that steel is brittle at lower temperatures !! Lets design and sell blade warmers !!" This was my whole question from the beginning of the thread. I've seen fencers take their blades from their blade bags and proceed to "warm up" their weapon by rubbing it with an...

Hummm.. the duel idea might prove dangerous if I'm wrong... :) But seriously on a related note, should there be some expectation of greater failure due to cold if the weapon has been strained beyond its ?placticity? limit (sorry my knowledge of materials is leaving me here) where the blade...

Thanks for the info. How would I present this to non-technical people that are convinced that they must "warm up" their blades prior to using them? Should I even bother? :)

There has been a lot of discussion in the Sport Fencing community about the effects of relative cold temperatures on fencing blades and the need to "warm them up" using friction to 'Room Temperature' prior to use. The temperatures that I am referring to are between -20 degrees F and 50 degrees...