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@Jaap
After modifying (carbon) forks, frames, hubs, shifters and whatnot, the next logical step was building my own frames of course! And after spamming some friends, including @Tijs and @Tijmen this week, I decided to make a thread about it.
So I ordered a "Low Cost Frame Fixture" from The Bicycle Academy back in October 2018, however it didn't arrive until April of this year. And with a few multi-week cycling trips planned I postponed the actual building till this week.
Here's my progress so far:
Made a plan.
Ordered some tubing.
Got some dropouts from San Fran with Trump newspaper.
With most of the supplies in started making some tooling for mitring tubing on my lathe.
Now the tubing kind of fits together I started on giving my seat stays a nice curve.
Decided to try something new, used a flow drill to make bottle cage bosses. These melt the steel instead of drilling through it, creating 2,5 to 3 times the wall thickness around the hole in which to put some threads.
This gives me a chance to show off my thread cutting tools (just look at that beautiful case).
Also tried some practice welds on tubing I ordered extra, although far from perfect, they look solid enough to trust my teeth to.
