My first fork

I can get loads of spaghetti twirled around this.

Made it today, my first one. Will be powder coated and attached to bicycle when I can afford it.
Hope it doesn't break..

http://www.flickr.com/photos/matts_bike_stuff

Breaking them is how you get better at building them, right? :)

I guess so.

Will try for a more graceful bend next time.
It's 40mm rake and took lots of swearing to get it aligned.

What's the process for building them?

you are brave.

brilliant, the bike is pretty much finished isn't it?

Congratulations and keep building..........

Nice work.

Now do it again!

What's the process for building them?

1. Enlarge crown to fit steerer tube.
   
2. Braze steerer into crown.
   
3. Slot fork blades - careful they're in the same plane as the widest part of oval blade.
   
4. Braze dropouts into blades.
   
5. Bend blades to desired rake.
   
6. Enlarge crown blade sockets to accommodate blades.
   
7. Put the whole assembly into the "Wilko-Matic" fork jig.
   
8. Measure for caster, camber, fork twist, blade length, both blades same length, blades level, etc, about a million times.
   
9. Take it all apart when the blades are the right length and flux the areas to be joined.
   
10. Braze it.
    
11. Realize that the heat has moved it.
    
12. Remove dropout on long side, file 0.7mm on long blade slot, clean, flux, replace dropout. Braze. Check alignment with correctly dished wheel.
    
    

Put kettle on.

1. De-flux, clean up with wet & dry paper.
   

I'll be truly impressed when you make your own hubs though ;o))

Love it! Keep us updated how it's going after a couple of uses

Oh yeah and I also checked alignment with a universal height guage, 2 V blocks, an engineer's square and a glass coffee table (nice and flat).

Oh yeah and I also checked alignment with a universal height guage, 2 V blocks, an engineer's square and a glass coffee table (nice and flat).

But has Fiddy checked it out?

Some people say the first is a bit disappointing.

This is not what I was expecting. Mis-reading thread title fail

:(