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Photos from the first day of the course (second time for me, first for @Cycliste).
Here's the front triangle of my bike, after I've mitred the main tubes.
Paragon Machine Works 44mm ID headtube and BB shell, Spirit 38mm downtube, Max top tube (but reversed so that the wide bit when viewed from above is at the head tube and the thin bit is at the seat tube) and a 28.6mm Columbus Life MTB externally butted seat tube. Mitering the bi-ovalised top tube by hand was a total swine (particularly as the frame is going to have a sloping top tube) but I got there eventually.
Because of the non-standard nature of the frame, I'm being allowed to use one of the Anvil fixtures rather than the standard Academy jigs. It's very nice. I want one.
Mitering the chainstays wasn't much fun either, but again, I got there eventually. This isn't quite the final fit, as I got the gap on the DS chain stay a bit tighter than it is the photo. Honest.
By the end of the second day, I'd finished fillet brazing the front triangle, I'd tacked the chain stays into place and was starting to think about the seat stays. More to follow on that front...
In the meantime, @Cycliste had mitered her main tubes and was busy brazing the front triangle, with guidance from Sam, Enigma's junior chap and Geoff's former trainee.
Result at the end of the first day - a brazed front triangle.
More to follow...