RE: [CR]was Hobbs and Hetchins update / now good lug design?

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From: <brucerobbins@supanet.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: RE: [CR]was Hobbs and Hetchins update / now good lug design?
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:49:36 +0000
cc: kctommy@msn.com
cc: kctommy@msn.com

Richard Rose wrote:

I'd like to know more about this "stress
> relieving" aspect of lug design. The esthetics being a personal thing,
> are there any good design reasons for the "ornate" style? I prefer clean
> lines myself, but if there are sound reasons for going more decorative
> I'm listening.

I don't know if one design is better than another from a stress-relieving point of view but didn't Jack Denny of Hetchins fame once say something about a series of jagged cuts with a hacksaw being just as good as an elaborate pattern?

Bruce
Dundee
Scotland