grip fitting

Fitting one of my 19mm square carbon wood grips to an LP epee blade. The grip is a tight fit so you have to tap it on with an epee weight. It's fine to just tap it on once, when you're assembling the weapon, but if you want to put it on and take it off again this is how to do it.
I say in the video that it's a broken bit of epee tang that I use as a drift pin, but it's actually cut off, not broken. Anything flat is fine. A bit of 1/2" dowel might be better, since it won't make a mark on the grip face.
The point of a press on fit like this rather than a looser fit is to make the blade a very tight fit to the handle. If the fit is looser, if the nut comes a bit loose the whole thing wiggles and creaks and works its way loose. This way it stays tight.
Once the weapon is assembled I don't take the handle off, usually, until the blade breaks. Once the blade breaks, remove the nut, clamp the blade and hit the bell guard to knock the handle off.
I guess it's a little bit of a pain in the neck, for which I'm sorry. It's certainly less violence than I usually use putting on a CR grip or any other very bent aluminum core grip, but it's less than just sliding a cheap straight traditional french grip on over a straight tang. There's some benefit to the very tight fit, I think, so I hope the trouble is worth it.
Thanks for looking!

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Good job Kevin - Gary