My thoughts..you must be well pleased with this project so far. Good philosophy in my reckoning,go for total perfection and then when it falls a little short it is still within the boundaries of acceptable. Clearly you did loads of research and prep.in order to put this together. Great camera work,assume by Miss Cools. Your channel going from lovely atmospheric accounts of bike trips to a whole different level. Thank you. HAPPY CHRISTMAS to you both. 😊
I like that you gave your bike project a name and were wearing a Fitz sweat shirt. You got me thinking about relocating canti mounts on an old 27" steel touring bike frame. Looks like you might have a drafting table with a drafting machine to draw that full sized drawing. Thanks and keep 'em coming.
Flux on the outside of the lug. Definitely. Look up pics on Richard Sachs's Flickr page for an example of how much. He uses a LOT and in my experience that's a good way to go. With decent heat control, and using a good amount of flux the lug will end up looking like it's coated in glass when you're done brazing, with minimal burnt spots.
Pretty close to my tube set. I used Columbus Spirit for lugs , over sized and a head tube for 1 1/8 threadless steerer. But, I built it for disc breaks. I made two of them. One as a all-rounder and one as a roadie. Ive abused them for 4 years. Still solid.
I went almost exactly with what the guy who wrote the book said to do. I used a digital angle finder, brazed with Harris silver and used the tube miter program with paper cutouts. I also cleaned and put flux all over everything that got hot. No drawing.
Any hint on the paint scheme you'll apply, or will you send it for a powder coat? Now I really wonder how the bikes that look like art are built much more when chrome parts are over painted surfaces. You know the look I'm trying to reference, those super high end works of art one can ride. Thanks for sharing and be well.
I think the total cost will be somewhere around $550.00-$600.00 for the materials, that's not including the tools, files, angle iron, fork fixture, oxy-acetylene, filler rod, flux, etc.
Cool stuff, Henry.
I am excited to see you taking this on, so far so good. I am interested in the final result and your impressions of your creation. Merry Christmas 🌲⛄
This is a great watch. If I may...80/20 extruded aluminum profiles might make a good jig material.
My thoughts..you must be well pleased with this project so far. Good philosophy in my reckoning,go for total perfection and then when it falls a little short it is still within the boundaries of acceptable. Clearly you did loads of research and prep.in order to put this together. Great camera work,assume by Miss Cools. Your channel going from lovely atmospheric accounts of bike trips to a whole different level. Thank you. HAPPY CHRISTMAS to you both. 😊
I like that you gave your bike project a name and were wearing a Fitz sweat shirt. You got me thinking about relocating canti mounts on an old 27" steel touring bike frame.
Looks like you might have a drafting table with a drafting machine to draw that full sized drawing. Thanks and keep 'em coming.
It’s looking good, like the improvised angle iron jig it will be interesting to see how you have made the jig for the seat and chain stays.
Flux on the outside of the lug. Definitely. Look up pics on Richard Sachs's Flickr page for an example of how much. He uses a LOT and in my experience that's a good way to go. With decent heat control, and using a good amount of flux the lug will end up looking like it's coated in glass when you're done brazing, with minimal burnt spots.
Pretty close to my tube set. I used Columbus Spirit for lugs , over sized and a head tube for 1 1/8 threadless steerer.
But, I built it for disc breaks.
I made two of them. One as a all-rounder and one as a roadie.
Ive abused them for 4 years. Still solid.
Nice work! Did you use silver filler, Did you build from a drawing?
I went almost exactly with what the guy who wrote the book said to do. I used a digital angle finder, brazed with Harris silver and used the tube miter program with paper cutouts. I also cleaned and put flux all over everything that got hot.
No drawing.
Any hint on the paint scheme you'll apply, or will you send it for a powder coat? Now I really wonder how the bikes that look like art are built much more when chrome parts are over painted surfaces. You know the look I'm trying to reference, those super high end works of art one can ride. Thanks for sharing and be well.
My lips are sealed.
Tom Waits is to candy canes as steel tubing is to:
What do you think your total costs are going to be?
I think the total cost will be somewhere around $550.00-$600.00 for the materials, that's not including the tools, files, angle iron, fork fixture, oxy-acetylene, filler rod, flux, etc.