[quote=“John Candlebury, post:11, topic:4297”]You know im pretty sure you couldn’t electrify the blade of a rapier just by placing two electrodes on the handle. I mean wont electricity just ignore the blade and travel through the shortest path in the hand guard?
Youll need to attach the other electrode in the tip and well that would made the rapier pretty useless[/quote]
You could just insulate the guard from the blade.
ASCII Diagram time!!
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/\
/^||^\ <-Hilt (The two | are the electrodes.)
/__||__\ <- Underscores are electric tape, covered wires go through it but there's no exposed wire until it's out of the tape.
/^^^||^^^\ <-Rest of the guard. Probably amplifier stuff in here.
/ |**| \
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|**| <- Grip. *s are batteries.
|**|
If necessary, you could run the wire all the way up the blade, which would totally ruin it’s ability to cut but give you a really long taser. Like an actually fencing weapon. I fence, the saber weapon has an electrified blade and no electrode at the tip. Although this might be because the circuit is completed through the other person. So you might actually need a wire going up the blade. In which case you would have this (Shameless fencing plug, but it shows how the blade works. There’s a button on the tip, and it completes a circuit with the other persons lame/jacket to confirm a hit.):
