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Awesome! I'm a goldsmith so I can appreciate how difficult that is. You make it look effortless, the sign of a true master.
"A few more file strokes, and the gap disappears.."I know how hard that fitting must have been (compound curves). You're not fooling me.
Excellent work! Thanks for showing us.
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07-25-2010, 02:37 PM #1
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For those of you into frame build pics...
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07-25-2010, 04:41 PM #2
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07-26-2010, 04:21 AM #3
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Sweet, Margo! You are amazing! BTW, I took my Luna to a bike shop when visiting my son and before I knew it, they had it on the stand and all six employees in the shop were hovered over it oohing and aahing at your work. I LOVE my Luna!!!
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07-27-2010, 04:14 AM #4
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Beautiful frame! I hope to, some day, have one of your lovely bikes
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07-27-2010, 06:37 AM #5
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Pam is a lucky lady!
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07-27-2010, 07:39 AM #6
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Yep, "a few more file strokes," indeed. If it were my hand doing the file strokes I'd have to start all over again - or cut my losses and quit.
I vote for "a few more masterful file strokes."Give big space to the festive dog that make sport in the roadway. Avoid entanglement with your wheel spoke.
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07-27-2010, 01:52 PM #7
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That is some gorgeous welding! Pam is a lucky woman indeed
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07-27-2010, 05:22 PM #8
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Why, thank you all for such nice comments! I'll take your kind and sweet comments with gratitude and as food for inspiration
I mostly posted the link hoping folks might be encouraged to ask: "what the heck is THAT?" or "why THIS?" ...as framebuilding looked weird to me from a distance before I ever did it....So if you have questions (and trust me, none of them are dumb; I've asked them all before), I'm very happy to answer them.
Honestly, this kind of work, the hands-on part of it, is simply repeating a process so many times you finally know how to do it in a way that isn't so effort-ful, although each frame is still really unique. I still enjoy it, and it still feels amazing that these things become actual beloved bikes, (and so often for people I never get to meet!). I like that there are so many variables in creating a bicycle by hand, and one must keep them all at the forefront of attention in order to make the best bike possible.
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07-28-2010, 02:55 PM #9
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Very cool thanks for posting... I actually just had a frame built by another Oregon builder - it would be very cool to see how he put the bike together...
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07-28-2010, 03:15 PM #10
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Beautiful work!
Is that seat tube angle as steep as it looks?Speed comes from what you put behind you. - Judi Ketteler
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07-28-2010, 05:12 PM #11
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It may be day-to day for you but to me, that's art.
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07-28-2010, 07:54 PM #12
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Why no, it's not. It's 73 degrees....Without the chainstays attached plus the wheels to create the horizontal line, it's pretty impossible to tell what the seat or head angle is from pics. Good question, though!Is that seat tube angle as steep as it looks?
I don't do it a lot, and as you can see from the partial documentation, I tend to focus on the building and forget to capture each step of the process... But from time to time...I actually just had a frame built by another Oregon builder - it would be very cool to see how he put the bike together...
Build photos, once you have looked at a few thousand of them
, can tell you a lot about the builder.
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07-30-2010, 06:34 PM #13
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Welding 101
I was the only girl in 7th grade metal shop. We didn't get much beyond using aviation snips & pop rivets, but I loved it (probably because it made my grandpa proud). You mention that you brazed the seatstays, vs tig welds. Can you share a bit more about the processes, applications & differences of the two methods?
