As I have read all your various comments as to whether Ugo could or could not have built a frame in either four hours or overnight, I can't help but wonder have any of you built bicycle frames? Now relax, I'm not being arrogant, or snobby, or whatever. I'm honestly curious.
I have built bicycle frames. It's hard enough to build a TIG'ed frame in four hours (I've never been able to do it) let alone a lugged frame. There is a LOT of work involved getting tubes and lugs ready. Brazing or TIG'ing is the fast part. It MIGHT be possible to build a lugged frame overnight IF all a builder has to do is pull a pipe or a lug that has been pre mitered, prepped, and ready to go.
This overnight thing though; boy, it's pushing the limits of credulity. Personally I find it hard to believe. It would take more than one person to pull this off. But hey, I'm not Ugo. Or Richard Sachs, or.....you get the idea. There are better frame builders than myself.
my two cents.
Jay Sexton
Sebastopol, CA