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It's been suggested that the seat posts use a quill design, like old-school stems...but with the brake cable seeming to go directly through the center line of the seatpost, it would seem as though it would rub on any quill bolt, which also passes through the centerline of the steapost. Curiouser and curiouser....
These "seem and appear" to be a big step above and very well executed even with normal SP's that I think would have to be modified.
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Yep, get all that and as we know many of those setups were sketchy, finicky and problematic as well as doomed when a inexperienced wrench was applied.
These "seem and appear" to be a big step above and very well executed even with normal SP's that I think would have to be modified.
These "seem and appear" to be a big step above and very well executed even with normal SP's that I think would have to be modified.
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You came here and inserted yourself with something very cool as many do, you are treating us like this is our first rodeo but it is what we do and we have played along like the good sports that we are.
You have taken advantage of our collective good nature, that is what's wrong with what you write, you should have enough consternation for a whole chapter as well as a chapter about the BF guys that couldn't figure it out.
You have obviously whipped up enough controversy to sell a few books at our expense which would be fine had you provided the info we ask for before now, book or no book.
You should have waited until the book was all but done and included us in your plan up front, we would have gladly gone along without all this instead.
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I think they look cool myself (although you'd probably classify me as someone with an "untrained eye"). It's just that today, the majority of those folks creating artsy-style framesets probably go more for intricate lugwork than fillet brazing.
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You don't have to wait. [O]ldguyonabike, Wileyone, Cynikal, squirtdad, bulgie and jdawginsc all posted several images and the names of other framebuilders employing this somewhat archaic technique. A simple Google search will bring up some others. If my count is correct, you commented on only one of these posts. It's sort of like you're not really interested in what others have to post, contrary to what you write above.
I think they look cool myself (although you'd probably classify me as someone with an "untrained eye"). It's just that today, the majority of those folks creating artsy-style framesets probably go more for intricate lugwork than fillet brazing.
I think they look cool myself (although you'd probably classify me as someone with an "untrained eye"). It's just that today, the majority of those folks creating artsy-style framesets probably go more for intricate lugwork than fillet brazing.
I would like to add to past comments it is not only the bikes which are a version of performance art but this thread is as well.
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Great shet, I do have some pictures of what the Road Warrior. After this is a good thread for his Schwinn Enduro girl to boy bike conversations, or the Schwinn stationary bike that he converted to Wizzer.
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Hey I found one! It's my old Novara, The Best Top Fillet Vintage Mountain Bike. The most stunning MTB ever made, makes all bikes pale in it's wake of fillet braze.
I don't know if you ever heard of the brand of components, Shimano.
I don't know if you ever heard of the brand of components, Shimano.
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Ding, Ding, Ding, we have a winner, looks like Monsieur Mercet was peeing in the wind all along.
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Its because fillet brazing is not a great expression of skill when compared to custom lugwork. Take a look at vintage Schwinn bikes which were fillet brazed on mass production lines by the hundreds of thousands. If someone chromed one of them some people would rave about them as well.
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When I took the UBI framebuilding course they split the class into Team Lug and Team Fillet Brazed. The lugged people had enough time to build a fork as well, whereas the fillet brazed gang had to practice fillet brazing for a couple of days before they were allowed to start working on their frame. I'd say that lugs are easier to start with, fillet brazing takes a bit more skill, at least at first. Both can look like barf once the flame is extinguished, but files and 80 grit garnet cloth can make you look like a million bucks.
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You will never know whether there was cleanup post brazing or not most likely there is some. Obviously if the frame builder is doing this as a business the less filing the better. I am still mystified about the romance that surrounds filet brazing. It is clearly the simplest method requiring the least skill, fewest specialized tools, easiest to repair and coverup errors, cheapest materials cost, heaviest and finally the weakest.
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You will never know whether there was cleanup post brazing or not most likely there is some. Obviously if the frame builder is doing this as a business the less filing the better. I am still mystified about the romance that surrounds filet brazing. It is clearly the simplest method requiring the least skill, fewest specialized tools, easiest to repair and coverup errors, cheapest materials cost, heaviest and finally the weakest.
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Its because fillet brazing is not a great expression of skill when compared to custom lugwork. Take a look at vintage Schwinn bikes which were fillet brazed on mass production lines by the hundreds of thousands. If someone chromed one of them some people would rave about them as well.
I would like to add to past comments it is not only the bikes which are a version of performance art but this thread is as well.
I would like to add to past comments it is not only the bikes which are a version of performance art but this thread is as well.
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It would depend on the Schwinn. There are fillet brazed Paramounts and other nice examples but I wouldn't include the electraforged (sp?) frames like the Varsity.
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Currently I use 56% silver as much as I can due to the lower temperatures. I keep the lugs and braze-ons to silver but use brass on cantilever studs. There are great silver alloys that buildup like brass at lower temperatures. I have used 50n silver and about to start playing with 45% silver to start learning fillets.
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