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There's a difference between
"I fancy trying a beautiful handmade steel frameset, it could be perfect for me, but I'd like to get riding one ASAP to see if that's true"
and
"I definitely know I want a handmade steel frameset that fits me perfectly and I have a couple of other high-end steel bikes to ride in the meantime whilst the builder takes [insert vast time period here] to build it".
I'm in the former camp, myself. I have a handmade bicycle but it's aluminium not steel. To my knowledge, the company that made it have only ever made custom-fit framesets for their own race team.
This is an infuriating thread.