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Saffron's not there this year :/
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Tom donhou has spoken about making a few frames and being a frame builder.
It's very hard to turn a craft into a career, brand and product.
With people now doing such boring jobs it's tempting to Jack it all in and sign up to a frame building course at dave yates, enigma, reilly, downlands or bicycle academy. Even geoff roberts does one to one classes.
The increase in builders has only increased the craftsmanship and only the fittest will survive. People like Tom at demon donhou and Ricky feather are now leaders of the small industry.
There is almost a craft beer feel that it's all getting too much now.
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Yeah getting to Bespoked is a good shout. Loads of top modern UK builders out there, Saffron, Feather, Rusby, Demon, Donhou, Rourke, Woodrup, Titchmarsh etc.
Somewhat related, I've just been looking at the list of exhibitors for Bespoked this year and barely recognise most of these new framebuilders. I think it was Richard Sachs (or someone else of that magnitude) who said you shouldn't be selling to the public until you've made 50 frames or something and you know they're all good, makes you think about the potential longevity of these frames.