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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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