On 9/4/07, Chuck Schmidt <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net> wrote:
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> I can't actually believe what I just read... you, Garth, are going to
> file, sandpaper grit, methodology Mr. Yoshi Konno's lugs?
Chuck, there's a good chance that the frame that Garth has wasn't built by
Konno himself. I've owned many 3Renshos at this point, and the differences
between the ones that were worked on by Konno, those by Yamaguchi, and those
by Makino (and those by anonymous shop employees) are pretty apparent
(though, sadly, not 100% confirmable all the time.) Konno by then was more
of the 'shop supervisor' and designer than the sole hand that built 3Rensho
frames -- not to take anything away from the later frames, which are
certainly nice. My Makino-built early 90s track frame (
http://boxwood.subtle.org/
-s
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