Geoff Roberts Framebuilding course - first and second, and third frames. And fourth (now finished). And fifth.

Less filing? That now sounds like an excellent idea. Nothing I've done in the last 2 months on the frame has been particularly photogenic but what I have done is:

1. Filing
   
2. Tapped and faced the bottom bracket
   
3. More filing
   
4. Reamed the seatpost
   
5. Even more filing
   
6. Stamped the BB shell with the frame number
   
7. For fuck's sake, not more filing
   
8. Filled in one ding (poor centre punch technique) and one huge pinhole (poor fillet brazing technique) with silver and filed them flat
   
9. And a bit more filing
   
10. Sanded down the 3T Rigida LTD fork that's going on the bike ready for painting
    
11. God I hate filing
    
    

Net result, in the spray booth, just ready for paint, looked like this:

I've done the primer, and that's been curing overnight. Once the paint had gone on, it was clear the fillets weren't quite as lusciously smooth as I'd hoped. Maybe I should've done more filing.

Anyway, I've now prepared the vinyl masks for the painting, so it's time to go and shoot some base coat, colour coat and clear.