Re: [CR]Masi Mania

(Example: Framebuilders:Alex Singer)

Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 20:10:27 -0800
To: Monkeyman <monkey37@bluemarble.net>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Joseph Bender-Zanoni" <jfbender@umich.edu>
Subject: Re: [CR]Masi Mania
In-Reply-To: <l03130301b6c3380e4b5e@[128.111.200.88]>


You should see the before and after of a Brampton lug and a Pop Brennan! There the beauty came from almost nothing. As Bill Brennan said with a sigh at age 80 or so "If I never file another lug I'll be a happy man". Pop put his sons to work doing the lugs at a young age I gather.

Joe

At 04:25 PM 2/28/01 -0700, Monkeyman wrote:
>One thing I do have to say is there's a lot of finish work in those
>suckers. I have a swiss Fischer BB shell, the one used on Masis, that
>sits next to my computer and it is one of the roughest sand castings I've
>ever seen. If you really look at it closely you can see the beauty trying
>to get out, but man would it take work.
>
>enjoy,
>Brandon"monkeyman"Ives
>
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