Thanks Steve. This was the only one that we tried the polished lugs on. It was a lot of extra work for both me and the painter. I did carve the lugs on several of my other frames, but not to the extreme as on this frame. I recall most of the others had the top tangs shaped into a "breaking wave", another Hawaiian influence. All of my frames were built with fastback seatstays. The first four were attached to the seattube like this frame, the last three had the stays attached to the ears of the seat binder. Frame #5 had them attached to an HJ seatlug. For #6 and #7 I used Cinelli cast seatlugs with the more flared and sculpted binder ears, which resulted in a fairly unique look to the seatstay cluster. #6 was a track frame built for a junior pursuit champion, and #7 was a road frame for a top local woman racer. I think those last two frames were my best and most artistic efforts.
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Kevin Ko Eugene, OR
-----Original Message----- From: Steve Birmingham [mailto:sbirmingham@mindspring.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 8:52 AM To: KO Kevin Subject: RE:[CR] Resurecting My 1981 Kilauea
Hi Kevin,
Wow that's a beautiful bike. The way the lugs are done is especially interesting, with the partial head and seat lugs and some fanciness on the underside.
I'd think you could remove just the clear over the lugs and crown, clean up the tiny bit of rust, mask and re-clear. You'd be good to go for another 30 years, maybe more depending on how good the new clears are.
Did you do similar things to the lugs on the other bikes you built?
Steve Birmingham
Lowell, Ma