#straightfromthetorch Frame building photos

I'm studying engineering and I wish I could draw like that!

My first ever attempt at brazing. Practice tube, mapp gas & silver. Fun times!

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Totally acceptable. Well done. Less silver needed. Use the flame to move the silver around the part. Silver flows where the heat goes

WHat sort out of interest?

Architecture / interior design

Did you design the head badge as well?

Thanks!

Less silver needed.

Yup!

That's lovely Loic.....

My problem would be painting it! I would have to keep it raw and lacquer ...

Finally finished this. It is a bike for someone with achondroplasia, which is a form of dwarfism.

Everything is a pain in the arse with these, normal tubes are too short in the butt, hence the carbon. Getting calipers to clear at the back requires lots of bending. The cranks had the wrong chainline for ultegra so needed machining, and so on and so on. Anyway, its all done now, except fot the custom mudguards. Which I snapped. YAY BIKES!

That looks so good and must be the pinacle of what custom bike fitting is about 😀

No, at the time Winston made the frame, by coincidence friends from Berlin we're staying at home and they are graphic designers ( http://www.ottosauhaus.de/) Winston wanted his initials somehow, and Sarah came up with it.

It is, but almost all of the praise should be aimed at Scherrit, he always sighs deeply when stuff like this comes along!

I know! Big dilemma!

Wicked. I really like that bike, and the story behind it is cool as well.

But for 99.9% of us, a custom fit could be acheived by a reasonably sized conventionally looking OTP frame and carefully choosing suitably sized stem, bars etc. So the majority of custom frames are for personal preference of quality and looks, with small tweeks for usability and individuality.
Here you've made a frame that couldn't be substituted by anything else avaliable.

Totally agree. These are both the most toublesome and satisfying builds I get to do.

Brommers Bike #3 ready for spraying.

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Headtube detail

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RAD

953 to 17/4 is always miserable, this was no exception.

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@PhilDAS you need to use silver on stainless bottle bosses, internal routing (if stainless) and so on. You'll have trouble avoiding it, and it requires less heat so may work better with propane anyway (I've never used it but think that makes sense?)

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Sweet. Well I haven’t ordered any stainless bits but I have ordered some silver and flux as well as the bronze so I’ll have a practise anyway. I chucked in an internal routing tube but I highly doubt I’ll get to use it right away. Got enough cable stops to use without it.

As it happens, Ceeway just got back to me and they're out of mudguard bosses so they're chucking in some stainless ones instead. Good job I ordered the silver afterall.