When, in mid-November 2022, we were setting about shutting down our old machinery to make way for a new production line, we discovered that our trusty, old Leon Paul forge...

The journey from design idea to design actualisation - however long that may take - can be broken down into six simple aspects: the who, what, how, where, why and...

Eloise Smith, Olympic fencer turned children’s author, on SISTER TO A STAR, her swashbuckling adventure for ages 9+. Despite the innate drama that sword-fighting brings, the sport of fencing doesn’t...

It's a good end to an otherwise tricky year... When we decided this year to go carbon neutral, we looked for a partner organisation to work with. After researching the...

Here at Leon Paul we have been moving towards a more sustainable way of doing business for many years. We have been chipping away at different areas of the business...

If you have come across my name before, it was most likely in one of the bottom corners of photographs showing fencers either in action, stood on a podium or...

In March 1923, George Mallory was asked by the New York Times “Why did you climb Mt. Everest?” to which he replied “Because it’s there”. Probably the most famous three...

As Ben Paul mentioned in his blog ‘Cooking with Swords’, we have a Lunch Club at Leon Paul with only one simple rule… You never talk about Lunch Club! Ben...

Dear Fencers, Sadly, I have bad news at this time and would like to ask the fencing community for support.   Poldek a fanatical fencer at the age of only seven...

I was thinking about how fencers could repurpose items of equipment to make any face covering mask fit better and be easy to take on and off one handed. I...