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That'd be great.
Though I'm starting to worry already that the price of this build will exceed the insurance money... which it basically can't do.
I love classic round tube frames, and really don't want to go all Trek or Cervelo on things, but the exchange rate from USD to GBP is really screwing with the price of US custom frames when it's not a major framebuilder who can swallow the difference. Looking at Moots the problem is essentially the same, USD pricing basically means a significant premium on the frame and fork.
I reckon for £8k, we're really talking £2k wheels, £1.5k groupset, £4k frame and fork and the remaining £500 is stem, bars, and saddle.
The Seven is coming in too high.
Velocio-
For you the fit is probably the most important aspect, so you could get a new fit from cyclefit and then get their opinion as to whether there is a stock frame that will work for you.
Or armed with fit data you could approach Enigma to make you a frame. Though of course what you lose is the personalisation of the tubing that made a Serotta and makes a Seven so special.
However fit is probably the most important aspect and that fine tuning is probably going to be lost to the other variables like contact points, tyre pressure etc. Cyclefit have done some articles about why these days they will often advocate a modern stock carbon frame over a bespoke metal or carbon one. Manufacturers fitting philosophies have improved hugely.
Or buy the Seven, recycle the old groupset for the meanwhile and replace in a couple of years.
dancing james
@Velocio
Phil has had it repainted but originally it was pink. He used to be a mechanic at Sigma, he will try to dig out photos of when it was new.