Re: [CR]re: riv lugs

(Example: Framebuilding:Tubing:Falck)

From: <Philcycles@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:03:12 EST
Subject: Re: [CR]re: riv lugs
To: thomasthomasa@yahoo.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


In a message dated 3/20/06 5:01:43 PM, thomasthomasa@yahoo.com writes:
>Does the fact that the Rivendell lugs are investment castings have anything
>to do with the way they look? Remeber that the Ephrgraves and Hurlowes
>to which the Rivs are being compared were pressed and/or stampings which
>were then embellished with files and hacksaws.

You'd be shocked at how much of that "hand filing" is actually stamped. Phil Brown I know I was in San Rafael, Calif.