There are plenty of folks can carve lugs that thin. Check out Dave Bohm's stuff <http://www.bohemianbicycles.com/Gallery%27s.htm>. Heck Curt Goodrich sent me a Rivendell lug as a gift a few years back that looks like lace. I'm not knocking Morris because I love his work, but thinly carved lugs aren't that hard to do. The kind of work displayed on your link may be one of the reasons I appreciate the British builders so much. best, Brandon"monkeyman"Ives To carve, or not to carve that is the question with my new Slant-6 lugs in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
> Idling waiting for my wife, I couldn't resist surfing
> CR again. I had never looked at H.R. Morris before.
> Are there any American (or British) builders capable
> of this sort of work today, even if one were willing
> to pay for the work involved? The link below shows Mr.
> Morris' personal bike. Even among the many ornately
> lugged bikes of England shown on the CR website, this
> one seems utterly remarkable. How in heck do you
> machine or file lugs this way without them cracking,
> bending, or whatever. This is more than ornate. This
> is all the way to delicate.
> http://www.classicrendezvous.com/
> Don Wilson
> Los Olivos, CA USA