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I don't want to build a frame. I don't want to shape any lugs before brazing. I don't want to TIG weld anything thankingyou please. I already have a frame. Its nice, but its not going to win any beauty contests. I only want to alter some slightly fugly lugs around the front on the head tube, by filing them smooth into the profile/line of the head tube toward the front, but leave the lugs as was where they grip the TT and DT. So I would taper the filing toward the back, out to the original curve of the lug surface. The back bit of the lug isn't so chunky looking. I guess my worry is where/how much to remove and how to get a clean shape to it around the barrel of the head tube and near the head tube end faces. And I'm concerned about damaging the original tube underneath. I wonder whether or not the headtube would look weird if there were tapers near the top and round the back. Like dogs said, a steady hand.
I want to know if you are all saying 'no on no account try to file off the lug edges toward the line of the tube' or 'yeah give it a go'. I would like to try it and bloody hell I might just.