Originally Posted by
PeteHski
Agreed on the cosmetic layer in the burnt patch look. The first one looks like a classic bi-directional weave.
But "classic bi-directional weave" is (was) almost always used as a cosmetic layer only, because there are very few locations on a bicycle frame -- especially where two or more tubes join one another -- where you want structural fibers oriented uniformly at a perfect 90° angle to one another.