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Here is a photo overview of work. Being a single person in the shop, its difficult to capture every detail of process and usually after the fact. All of the fixturing is obviously to build flat. I have yet to decide if this is a prefered method as there are some pros and cons. Pros.. My arms dont get tired holding the torch up and whatever tools needed to do the job at hand. cons.. access. but reall not much is needed. I think a new steel surface plate is in order. then again a pro fixture would ease set up of the tubes. Lengths are what I am having a difficult time with. the drawing from the first post.. crap. Too much info but a good exercize none the less. Drawing something out gets a person in the groove of building. sort of like meditation. It is easy however to generate incorrect angles and lengths. I dont propose that a computer drafting program is needed. Rather known lengths and trigonometry and a subscale drawing. Unless one has access to a machine shop, miters will be cut by hand. Lug lines will get you close then move to a nice quality protractor and a half round file to dial in. I do have access to a shop but it is far away. if something is not cut properly I have to do fitting the old fashioned way. Filing is a good good skill to have. Nothing wrong with it. What else are you going to do? Watch T.V.?

2nd

New Shell fixture. Square build coming up!

successful failure

First attempt was all wrong. well mainly the BB shell. did not lock it down and its out. No way to move it as its very well brazed. Maybe it can be, I don't know. That was the main goal. to braze. Lots of fried flux later I now feel comfortable running a torch. Geometry was wrong as well as tube lengths. So pouring morte resources into a wonky frame seems a pointless endeavor. Missed the lengths by very little but the differences were enough. On to the second try!!! more specific fixturing and a much better understanding of whats what. Stay tuned. W

Back track a little

Here are some process photos. The prep work photos were done by me and after the fact. I.E. no extra hands to run a camera during the fileing and stuff. My riding buddy Hagen who is truly one cool cat, came over last night and helped out with documenting the brazing of the first joint. The frame will be his when finished for the stuff to practice with was gifted to me so I will pass it along. Plus I talk alot with freinds so he has endured many random fireings of synaptic conversations. So it goes... here it is so far.

What ugly looks like