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Once I was happy with the alignment I brazed up the whole of the frame, and used the normal technique of careful filing and various grades of abrasive paper to shape them.
This is the seat tube cluster. I silver brazed a reinforcing sleeve over the tube itself, you can just see the bottom of it in shot.
Then I cut and shaped the head badge from a piece of stainless steel, the idea being that this was left polished and unpainted. I brazed stainless reinforcing rings onto the top and bottom of the head tube, which you can see in this shot.
And here's how it looked once it was painted. I went for a metallic powder coat, Dark Steel was the name of the finish, with a gloss lacquer over the top.