Nice Japanese Greg, but you might be advised to have one or two lessons in the more honorific forms if you ever are invited to have tea with the emperor.
There is a long tradition in Japan for distinction via understatement. How to reveal a personalization of the maker through subtlety and control, that is one of the great achievements beyond simply technique. It takes more to say less, kind of thing. Nagasawa frames often reveal those qualities. Cute paint jobs too. How about a zen priest at the next cirque giving a discourse on 'no mind'. He might roll in a Nagasawa, tap it with a stick, then walk out. Lecture over!
Dennis Young Typhoon clouds rolling in look like the underbelly of a serpent in Hotaka, Japan
> gpvb1@comcast.net writes:
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> << Agreed 100% - and also look at that Nagasawa!!! Yeah! Sugoi desu yo! >>
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> At the risk of going against the flow, Nagasawa is a totally different style
> builder. He has really cool "bits" made, investment cast drops, Masi~DuBois
> style lugs, perfect joinery, but he really does not personalize the frame by
> distinctive shaping, styling, filing, thinning, etc etc. More like the
> ultimate
> "plug and play". OK, a few slots in the BB shell, but simply not sculptural in
> the way that Bruce Gordon thinks/builds.
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> Of course, as the wise man says, opinions are like ___, everyone has one.
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> Dale
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> Dale Brown
> Greensboro, North Carolina