From *The Custom Bicycle*:
"Pogliaghi does not design a frame to meet specific angle. He is more concerned with the length of the top tube in proportion to the seat tube. As a general rule of thumb, Pogliaghi will build a bicycle with a top tube only 2cm larger or smaller than the seat tube. Otherwise the bicycle will be ill proportioned and will not ride correctly...However this rule applies only to to the medium sized frames. The small and large frames will not follow this rule. For example, the smallest top tube Pogliaghi will put on the 47cm frame is 49cm."
"Pogliaghi does not use cast lugs or cast bottom brackets on his frames. He thinks that they create a frame that is too rigid and, as a result, prone to tube breakage at the joints. He does, however, use a cast fork crown, because he feels that the fork must be stiff in order to provide good handling. He generally builds with Columbus tubing, but he will build with Ishiwata or Reynolds tubes, depending on what the customer wants."
"All Sante Pogliaghi's frames are sent out for painting and chroming. Sante Pogliaghi, however, cautions about chroming. He believes the chroming should not be done in a sulfuric acid base {sic. Bath, maybe?}, otherwise it will eat away at the tube and eventually crack it. A word of advice from Pogliaghi if you must have your frame chromed: 'Oil the inside of the frame after it has been chromed' to prevent rust."
"...If you would like Pogliaghi to build a frame, you had better give him your order soon, as he plans to retire by 1980."
Ah, I coulda had one, too...<sigh>
Charles "ah, for the good old days" Andrews SoCal