Which an't all that uncommon!Dale's web site--CR--says the speedwell is a beautiful bike,Says so right on the page.Well Dale,is it,or is it not?
sam lingo,pleasanton tx
>
>Hi Tony:
>
>I am afraid I couldn't disagree more. The ability to weld that well, the
>tumbled down row of coins, the smooth & almost perfect stack of beads, is
>technique, an acquired skill, which IMO is unfortunately still not any more creative
>than playing a video game well. When you get up to leave, there is not much of
>a trace of your individualism nor any residual additive element.
>
>Of course, building with lugs doesn't guarantee that soul or creative spark
>gets put into play either. You can just plug parts together, without any change
>or modification, which can be a boring exercise that fails to set your work
>apart from any other drone-like assembly person.
>
>I always think of Grant Petersen's words (he weaves them so well..) "Two
>hundred years from now, a Rivendell, or a Heron, or an Atlantis, will be
>identifiable even if it's stripped of paint, rusted and crusty and covered in cobwebs
>in your great great great great great great great granddaughter's attic, or
>strangled in ivy as a cherished decoration in her garden" That of course is due
>to the lugs and could never be the case in an anonymous weld.
>
>In fact, this "sign of the differentiated hand" or Persona or whatever we
>want to call it, is what I see in the best of bikes, and this level of craft even
>artistry is exactly what the Classic Rendezvous celebrates ..... and that's
>why welding will most probably always be OT.
>
>Dale Brown
>Greensboro, NC
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