Ill tell you about my week. I spent a little time cleaning up and getting more organized in the shop. Sometimes I feel to anxious to tidy up and other times I just want to make things and not be bothered. I have never been much good at doing the stuff I am supposed to [...]
Archive for January, 2012
Just a Monday
Posted in Uncategorized on January 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Fork job
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "frank the welder" "rigid fork" "true Temper" on January 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This was a fun fork to build. I should have taken more photos. The caliper mount is awesome. I haven’t used TT for a while. I have a few jobs coming up using True Temper tubing.
Behind the curtain
Posted in Uncategorized on January 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Face it, no man or woman is an island. While I claim to be a frame builder I really just put together pieces that I get somewhere else. Sure, I bend, form and draw tubes, I CNC dropouts etc. but at the end of the day I am just one part of the puzzle. I [...]
Pretty feet
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged custom bicycles, frank the welder, frankthewelder on January 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Hello and greeting. Since the world didn’t end last week, I decided to head on back to the shop and make some stuff. Since I started doing more butted tube projects I found myself nearly dropping my nice Helios dial-bore gauge. I said “NO” to that almost daily risk and made a nice tool for [...]
happy new year
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged frankthewelder on January 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Hi, Happy new year! Lanie and I had a nice holiday. I took a couple of days off (I know, that ain’t me) and slept all day last Sunday and it was nice. I have been doing a bunch of retro type projects as well as some current stuff and after a bunch of steel [...]
