At 12:26 PM 1/23/2010, Al Fack wrote:
>Have any of you seen Chris Kvale or someone of his frame-building
>caliber file lugs? That's fun
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You know what's not fun? Filing your 1st set of lugs with a friends
Kvale hanging 10 feet away and knowing that Chris would be doing your paint.
28 years ago Kvale was the only custom builder who's lug work I was familiar with. So I thought to do a good job, the lugs should look like his. With perfectly even thickness shorelines thinned to about half a millimeter tall. If I'd seen a few other builders work I might have had fingerprints that winter. After that, I went back to fillets.
Back on thread; As I get older I care much less about how my bikes look, whether they are original or if other riders will be impressed with them. Now I care much more about how they ride and how much I get to ride them. I have some valuable NOS parts I'd planned to use someday. Now I've decided to just hang onto them till I have time to figure out how to use eBay to get them to someone who puts a higher value on NOS than I do.
Mark "Chris is still Da Man!" Stonich;
BikeSmith Design & Fabrication
5349 Elliot Ave S. - Minneapolis. MN 55417
Ph. (612) 824-2372 http://bikesmithdesign.com
http://mnhpva.org