Things are going awesome out here, and we’re just a few days away from wrapping up.
I haven’t been able to keep on top of blogging because we’ve more or less been pulling 14 hour days for a week and a half straight. My life has mostly consisted of:
- measuring
- cutting
- filing
- brazing
- repeat
The really cool thing about this course is that it isn’t just instruction to slam together some tubes and call it a bicycle. It’s more of a bicycle craftsman bootcamp, developing fine-tuned skills in brazing and filing (both easy things to do poorly!). We marry those skills to a strong learned sense of design aesthetic.
If I was to make a checklist for the whole process, it would probably be in excess of 600 steps. Add in troubleshooting and filing/brazing skill…well, this is about a year’s worth of learning compacted into two ultra intense weeks!
Anyway, I’ll do a comprehensive update and review when I return. Onwards!
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Hello mate, very impressed by your project! Just wondering on a related note of making your own stuff, where you can buy those metal rules with the slits in?
I am actually looking to make my own musical instrument and think one of those could come in handy. Are they just called slitted metal rules or something similar?
Cheers
Chris -
Hi Chris,
Thanks for the note!
I’m assuming you’re referring to the rules on the framebuilding fixture?
If so, they’re actually designed by my teacher, Doug Fattic, and laser-etched at a machine shop near his house. The numbers are offset to start at certain points relative to the design of a bicycle, rather than starting at zero.
I imagine any machine shop would be able to put one of them together if you just brought your idea, and it wouldn’t be too much money. It’s just a matter of getting a 1/4″ thick stainless steel bar slotted down the middle and laser etched as a ruler.
Good luck!
Clifford
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