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

Ouch. I've managed to punch myself in the face with a spring-loaded clamp, but I don't think I've ever stabbed myself in the face. There's still plenty of time for that to happen though.

So, after the work above, I set about filing and polishing and filing and polishing and filing and polishing. This took an inordinately and amazingly long time. For example, the Llewellyn rear dropouts come with eyelets cast in, on the basis that if you don't need them you can always chop them off. I don't need them, so I chopped them off, but this left the rear dropouts looking a bit lumpy up close.

Nobody will, of course, ever notice that. I don't imagine that anyone is every going to carefully inspect the roundness of my rear dropouts. However, it's still lumpy so needs sorting. And after half an hour of careful filing and shaping, I've got to this:

However, @Cycliste (who I send a copy of the photo above) thinks the transition between the seat stay and the top of the rear dropout looks wrong. Bear in mind this is on the inside of the dropout, and will be covered up by the rear hub. But, still, she has a point. Time to break out the files again, and start reshaping things again. A little later, I've got to this:

Time to do the NDS dropout next and repeat the whole process. And then there's the shorelines on the dropouts and the little splodge of brass. And that's just the dropouts.

Anyway, eventually the frame was ready for paint, filed, polished and fettled. Like this.

I also sanded the decals off the fork (an Easton EC90SLX) as they were quite thick and would have showed through the paint. Time to spray.