Saxicola

Hi everyone. I'm setting up a Crust Bombora in 2x. The frame is designed for 1x so there is no braze on for the FD. I've got a braze on adapter for the FD but need some nice ideas for cable routing. I'm using the Shimano GRX 810 FD which I believe has a housing stop. It's disc brake so I'll have 3 cables running underneath the downtube and under the BB. I'm looking for some nice ways to route those.

I've scoured the internet for brass cable guides and I cannot find them anywhere. Anyone know where I can find them? https://farm66.staticflickr.com/6553...2615dfd5_b.jpg

Some people e.g. Blue Lug who build these up have used a bent Surly cable hanger for routing / cable housing stop, shown here further down the page: https://bluelug.com/blog/kamiuma/crust-bombora/. The frame does have a hole in the BB but I believe I would need to tap that, which I can certainly do. Any other ideas? I really don't want to use those plastic cable guides on such a nice frame!


Brass cable guide I'm looking for


Surly hanger used for cable routing and housing stop

Andrew R Stewart 

For some one with very basic fabbing skills and tooling making this kind of casing clamp should be fairly easy to make. Maybe not as sleek and minimal as the one shown... Andy

dedhed

Best bet is to find some hobby machinist and a piece of brass stock because I don't think you're going to find anything like what you want commercially.
Honestly as far as esthetics, you generally cannot see the plastic ones unless you are really fixated on them anyway. Brass paint on the plastic one and a brass screw?

Iride01 

If you can befriend a person that is in the plating industry, then you can have a shiny aluminum clamp chemically anodized to a yellowish to goldish looking color. Or purple, green, black or several other colors.

Kontact

That cable guide is not brass. Anodized aluminum.

You could make something by bending brass sheet and drilling.

Saxicola

Thanks for the suggestions everyone, I think I have some ideas. It's a shame that ceramic parts won't work on bikes, I'm a potter and could make all sorts of cool stuff if it wouldn't smash into a million pieces

Kontact

Use those materials, skills and kiln to make cast parts.