<< Aren't those fillets filed and sanded to the finish radius? >>
The really good builders can lay a filet that barely needs any cleaning, filing etc.... John Slawta at Landshark can do this... Tom Ritchey also can lay down an amazingly clean filet. "It's all in the wrist" skillful flame and heat control.. and huge amounts of practice.
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-----Original Message----- From: John Betmanis <johnb@oxford.net> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Sent: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 3:55 pm Subject: Re: [CR]Jack Taylor Question Lugless Tour of Britain?
At 10:12 AM 16/09/2008 -0500, Mark Stonich wrote:
> I can lay down a pretty good fillet myself, but I have no idea how
>Norman could get them so smooth with just a torch. Once I asked if
>anyone on the framebuilder's list had ever mastered the technique. I
>only got a few replies from those who had tried and failed.
Aren't those fillets filed and sanded to the finish radius?
John Betmanis
Woodstock, Ontario
Canada