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Things are moving along at Ellis Cycles. The current project is a fixed gear road frame with fancy stainless lugs. I tried to take photos through all the stages, but I must admit, I find it hard to stop and take photos once I'm in the groove of carving.
The seat lug begins with some 1/8" holes to perforate the area to be removed.
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Moving around the lug, more large chunks of metal to remove. You'll see on some of the lugs, I started with a design roughly drawn on the lugs, but I deviated on some of them. Chalk it up to inspiration.
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The beginnings of a design.
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Removed a chunk and thinned down the center. I have to give credit to J.P. Weigle for the large loops on the back of this lug and the underside spoon of the other lugs. I saw his design on Kirk Pacenti's site and always liked it.
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Moving on to the sides, cleaning out the large loopy openings with the die grinder.
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The finished lug. Admittedly I missed a couple steps, but you get the idea.
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On to the head lug, I'm already pretty well into the carving here, but pretty similar to the seat lug in the early stages.
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A shot from the down tube side, just beginning to take shape.
Finally, the finished lug set. More pictures to come of the frame taking shape.
1 comment:
Beautiful lugs Dave. Sure to get four stars from The Inspector and the client!
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