Mark Nobilette has an article in the latest Vintage Bicycle Quarterly (Vol 4, Numer 4) about cutting custom lugs from oversized tubes that are first fillet brazed. It has pictures that take you through the steps in the process. The idea is to find a set of aircraft tubing that has an inner diameter equal to the outside diameter of the tubes you plan to use. I found the article and pictures were good, although it jumps from the two tubes brazed together to a complete set of finished lugs with tubes in them in the pictures and that took me awhile to digest. I would have liked to have seen an intermediate step in pictures that showed the lugs in the process of cutting. My brain had a hard time getting wrapped around the idea at first. Regardless, another fine VBQ from Jan Heine.
As I was reading Peter Rich's interview, with pictures, I couldn't help but think of Ted Ernst and his fine presentation at Cirque and the talk that Peter Johnson gave a few years ago. The seminars at Cirque have certainly opened my eyes to days gone by in cycling. I often don't realize at the time of the seminar that something they say is being absorbed, only to have it resurface years later from another perspective.
Lou Deeter, Orlando FL
"We are now past the good idea cutoff point..."