I’m sure you can see the crack in the weld in that picture up there — you’d have to be blind not to. I could have just poured a little more bronze in there and no one would have been the wiser. But I would. And given that the front triangle was finished, it wasn’t a situation where, “Oh, I can just scrap this subassembly and re-do it.” No, it was having to craft a whole new front triangle.
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So I’ve been monkeying around with the idea of building a gas-welded (not TIG’ed) aluminum frame. This would be one of those one-off experiments, just to see if it’s viable. I’m pretty sure I’d want to build a dozen or so, just to see if it’s a worthwhile endeavor. (Plus I get the R&D write-off on my taxes, right?) If any framebuilders out there have any commentary, opinions or insights on…
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I got asked how it is I create the fluted ends on my seatstays. I struggled to explain it in a 5-minute, spoken-only venue and struggled a bit. Seeing as just the night before I had photographed the process, I put myself in a position to write this post.
Starting out, I have a pair of seatstays. I find a piece of scrap tubing (you do save your scrap tubes, right?) that will become the caps…
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