Today was a pretty good day. I got my main triangle all brazed up, filed my fork so a wheel sits in there correctly, filed and cleaned up one of my fillets. Fillet brazing is fun, and quite a bit easier than silver brazing. I did the first braze on the frame with Doug watching and then did the next two solo. The second of the three brazes (head tube to top tube) came out the best I think.
Fillet Brazing Head Tube and Top Tube
Down tube to top tube.
The other big task of the day was to get the chain stays cut, aligned and brazed up. Since I was behind on getting my main triangle brazed up I didn’t get started on this (and really only one person can do it at a time because of the tools needed). Once Daniel gets finished up I’ll start on that. The first task is to fillet braze a binder bolt to my frame so I can use the jig to align the chain stays. I cleaned up the seat tube fillet tonight so I could get that done first thing.
Cleaned up seat tube braze
We also ordered tubing so we could make ourselves the chain stay jig. Come to Doug Fattic’s class, get a bike and tools to make another one. Go team. Today was a really good day in the shop, everyone was off on their own just getting things done for the most part. This has been my favorite day of the class so far. It’s nice to see the bikes starting to take shape.
Pictures are uploading to flickr now.
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