Thanks very much for the compliments!
As for the seatstays, they are attached in the "Masi" manner. This was a three step process: first, file off the top of the seat stay at a sharp angle; second, use brass to braze on an inverted piece of tubing; and then braze the resulting seatstay cap to the seat lug with a fillet of silver (you can't use brass, it seems, because if you got everything up to brass-melting temperature, the seatstay cap would slide right off). For photos of the process, see:
Adam Hammond Toronto, ON, Canada
On 2-Sep-08, at 7:58 AM, Tom Jue wrote:
> Nice job Andy. Beautiful file and finish work. But, there doesn't
> see
> m to be very much holding up the seat stay?
>
> Tom M. Jue
> San Francisco, CA