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Oxy Acetylene – some observations from an amateur framebuilder

By Neill Hughes 1 – The projects: I’ve built a couple of steel bicycle frames using fillet brazing as the tube joining method. I use ...
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Make Your Own Framebuilding Jig

By Jonathan Thompson My first experiences of frame building involved some sort of jig. This was some angle iron bolted to a sheet of MDF ...
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Framebuilder Tooling – Using a Lathe

By Jonathan Thompson I have to confess to being a tool buyer. I’ve generally found the sooner you buy tooling the sooner it pays for ...
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David Mercer – Mercer Bikes, Cape Town, South Africa

I met David Mercer at the Bespoke Bike Show in London in April 2014. I was impressed with the bicycle he had brought to the ...
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SKARPER electric assist review

I was one of the first to order a Skarper electric assist device as promoted ...

Making Head Tube Cutters UPDATED

For my last three frame projects I chose a tapered head tube for a tapered ...

Proxxon Belt Sander

I recently purchased this 240v hand held belt sander, and wished I had done this ...
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