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Doug Fattic’s Class: Day 5

Today was a good day. There were no major screw ups, nothing was caught in an angry Bridgeport and torn up, no one hacksawed the wrong thing, all of our parts showed up (okay so maybe there was one screw up) and most importantly, I had a really good braze on one of my fork [...]

Doug Fattic’s Class: Day 4

Today was a good day I think. I started out the morning with a few more practice brazes in an old bottom bracket. My brazing is still not as good as I’d like but I do seem to be improving. Doug and I were talking this evening and he said he thinks I’ll have the [...]

Doug Fattic’s Class: Day 3

Today is the day the Bridgeport and I became good friends, really good friends. As I said yesterday I’d completed the top tube miter on the head tube end. Today I started working on the top tube to seat tube miter. The formula that I mentioned yesterday was indeed correct. Basically the formula is this: [...]

Doug Fattic’s Class: Day 2

Today was the beginning of the real work I think. Two of us are still short parts, I don’t have lugs and a fork crown. Another class member Clifford does not have a bottom bracket and some other stuff. Hopefully my stuff arrives tomorrow, it has been shipped from England last week. Clifford’s appears to [...]

Doug Fattic’s Class: Day 1

Today was the first day of my time at Doug Fattic’s two week frame building class. Today was from what I can tell the most uneventful day as far as building, but interesting in terms of the history we learned and some of the things we learned about fitting. I’m a bit of an odd [...]