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Fair enough, the biggest advantage of the waiting time is that it helped me finalised some thing with my custom, so the final build is slightly different to how it originally started.
Originally intended for 700c with cantilevers, full rack mount and integrated shifters, which now turn into a 650B with centrepull and downtube shifter.
The main reason why I went for Oak and not other was that he's near, and being deaf it's much easier for me to drop in and talk to him with some ideas and suggestion like people used to do in the past, that and his recent work show a real ingenuity in building a very specific custom frame, the MTB he build for Nik is a pure testimonial for that.
What steal the deal for me was that after I've spoken to him, he drew up a quick geometry chart that resemblance a typical French Randonneur geometry before I start throwing Rene Herse geo chart at his face, which show that he understood exactly what I wanted.