Hulsroy's Hustle

these look really good. top work.

Thanks dudes

Well don’t they look great!
Speaking from experience batch production I much quicker and cheaper, but by Christ anything over 5 units is boring!

Thank you.
Yes I also get bored easily.

I would need to take my workshop seriously if I wanted to do batch. If need more machines and better setups

You've made a fork in about the same time as it takes me to get off my arse and make a sandwich.

Do you charge £350 plus materials for your sandwiches?

Those forks are fire, can see that the tops are oval so coins wouldn’t work - maybe a panto’d H or would that look a bit shit given the orientation of the long axis?

Could use coins that get squished in one of those machines I've only ever seen in museums.

The problem is that I would need to machine and panto some caps before brazing it on and that takes a lot of time. And this guy is not paying :)

Couldnt you just cut the tops at an angle so the coins fit? If the legs are oval.
Actually just do what you want!

I don't want coins sorry

Would love to see a frame buildin the same style

Do you mean

1. Steel and fillet brazed?

2. Capped oval tubes with round tubes protruding?

3. Using fork blades and steerer? (That be M_V!)

The forks look fast, some kind of slim fast road bike, maybe with a streamlined version of the fork crown used in place of your wishbone seat stay bridge, a bit like the back end of @JesperXT s bike (I know that was a lug)

that fork looks stunning.

Yes. But I could CNC an aero wishbone lug maybe and use an oval downtube

Thanks 🙏

Fair enough 😀

Or maybe something like what DeKerf does?

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I like my own solution better I think.

Anyways on to the next project. Soldered some stainless faces onto steel dropouts and machined some things.
Gotta do some brass two bolt washers and maybe a brass counter nut

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Is that column pre-drilling tool guiding your tap tool? That's some serious hustler way of threading ahah

No last photo is a precisely machined piece of silver steel.
Fairly common practice

Like always life throws me curve balls. I did not get the stuff done I imagined and now I have other family obligations suddenly.
MTB is on hold for the remainder of Easter I am sad to realise. I'll get back to it soon tho and it will be my late evening hobby project. But it is looking unlikely that it will be done by the arrival of our son. Oh well...
I did manage to finish my friends forks with internal routing for dynamo and rack bosses. Also made him a new rear bridge so he can fit 35c tyres. He made the frame himself long ago and it will be nice to see it back on the road.

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I still nee to do some touching up before it's ready for paint but it feels good to have it out of the way. I am going to try and and not take on any projects (from other people than myself) for the rest of 2022. It stresses me out when I really want to get to it and do a good job but can't because I am needed elsewhere.
The MTB is coming along nicely (slowly). Happy with the headtube I managed to engrave yesterday and obviously the dropouts from the other day.
Now I just need to make some decisions on joinery, order some stuff and take my time fitting the tubes in the jig.

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