Beginning steps - deciding what you want to build.
Materials - what to use and where to get it.
Tools - a bare bones set of tools.
Modifying the fork-ends with stainless faces.
Modifying the bottom bracket shell to work with my mix of angles.
Mitering the tubes.
Soldering the main triangle.
Soldering the rear triangle.
Cleaning up the lugs. Complete with lots of pictures of the naked unpainted frame.
Making transfers.
Painting.
Addendum.
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Firstly, everyone who emails me asks what the completed bike looks like (as if the frame weren't enough!). Here's a pic taken a couple of months ago, but with road cranks (I've fitted track cranks more recently, but more on that in a bit...):
The bike has problems. I bought some Campy track cranks to replace the road
cranks I used initially, and found the crank arms hit the chain stays. This
is due to the widely separated chainstay ports of the Long Shen BB shell I
used for this bike, which would be more at home on a touring bike. Also, the
brazing isn't very good, especially on the bottom bracket shell.
I intend to rebuild it, using Henry James lugs, but will do a touring bike
first.
See the description of my Audax frame
for more.
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