Posts from ‘June, 2009’

Not much to say.  This one pretty much speaks for itself.

I managed to scrounge up another 953 tubeset and this time I’m skipping the lugs.  This is an experimental project, and if it works it could really open up the world of stainless to framebuilders who don’t TIG weld. Of the three methods of joining tubes, stainless only lends itself to two: TIG, and silver [...]

Sean’s rig is going to be a stunner for sure!

Sean’s frame is almost ready to go to paint.  I just need to rinse off the flux and clean up the seat tube joints and away she goes.  Oh yeah, and make the fork.

Sean Conroy’s road frame is mitered up and ready to be tacked and brazed.  This is another MAX tubeset, and the more I work with these the more I like them.  His is slightly altered from your stock MAX tubeset.  He wanted to do fillet brazed instead of lugged, so I used a 31.7 7/4/7 [...]