Current Projects chat and miscellany

Getting it cut down to 26.5 (the correct OD to press fit the 26.4 King base plate) with the right tool will be a much better investment in the long term than making a polygon roughly the right size. It might be worth asking CK if they do a 27.0 base plate, they do undersizes to fit over cut steerers and you're unlikely to be the first to ask for an oversize.

yea i get what you're saying, but i'll be fine. here's my thinking....

financial:
The tool costs 500 dollars. CK doesn't make a 27 baseplate, the fork was 80 bucks used, and the local shops are asking for more money than i want to spend on this, considering i'm sure it will be unnoticeable once the thing is fit on there.

practical:
i mean really whats going to happen? not centered? not round? meh. I really doubt that my imperfections in shaving off a cunt hair of metal will average out to an oval, and still it's only a fraction of a mm.

if the fork were bling/new/custom i'd deffinitely seek out the correct method.