It’s been busy lately, and I’m pretty exhausted. The last four days have been some of my most aggressive in some time — where my production queue is concerned — Thursday through Sunday, I was spending at least four hours a day in the shop, which is awesome. I’ve been pretty backlogged for awhile now, and I want to get uncorked, get these bikes out the door and onto the road. To that end,…
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Lunch Break
Proceeding swimmingly on Erin’s CX frame. Beautiful, if somewhat time-consuming, job of slotting the chainstays. (Mental note: in 2012, invest in a slotting saw.) The work you see here was done entirely by-hand, with a knife-blade file, followed by a flat file.
Going to take a quick break and get some lunch in my stomach, and then get back to…
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Improving Throughput
So I want to be able to speed up the framebuilding process somewhat — without sacrificing quality, of course — and I’m trying to identify the best way to do so. Once my honeymoon is complete, I’ll be renting space and equipment from Paul Wyganowski. However, with the drive to Princeton being what it is, I will probably have to limit myself to 2 days per week on-site.
That would normally…
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Production, Paint and More
Things have been progressing a little slowly over the past few weeks, as I’ve had a lot of wedding commitments that have required attention. I hope to be back at full production rates later this week. If you’re at all curious about what’s been transpiring, I offer you this short list:
1. Wedding planning, which requires entire weekends out-of-town.
2. Wedding planning, which occupies entir…
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