Re: [CR]Fillet brazing when did it start,who does it still?

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Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 19:30:58 -0700
To: DB <db@home-work.com>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Brandon Ives" <monkeylad@mac.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Fillet brazing when did it start,who does it still?

At 10:24 PM -0400 7/21/02, DB wrote:
>At 5:48 PM -0700 7/21/02, Brandon Ives wrote:
>>Was there ever a real production fillet brazed frame?
>
>Tom Ritchey's first 10 years of production featured fillet brazed
>road and mtbike frames. I've seen some pics of his early mtn bikes
>and they are truly beautifully finished.
>

Those frames were all brazed by hand, I think the rear ends were done in Japan and Tom did the rest. When I'm talking about real production line production. One of the big reasons lugs became popular was that they made production quicker and easer. We've read lots of tales of lugs only half brazed, but I've never heard about a half-finished fillet though Bondo can work miracles sometimes it's just not structural.
enjoy,
Brandon"monkeyman"Ives
SB, CA