OK, for those of you who haven't been watching the blog, Chris couldn't make up his mind on exactly what type of Ellis frame he wanted, so I surprised him. He received the frame yesterday, so now I can finally post some photos and not worry about ruining the surprise.
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Parts all laid out, ready to fixture the main diamond.
A couple close up shots of the head lugs, before and after brazing.
The stainless brake bridge, post braze with the flux still hot.
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After some careful finishing with very fine emery.
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A little out of order here, but here's a shot of the seat stays, mitered and dry fit. I had to heat the ends of the stays just a bit and then squeeze them just a touch to get them narrow enough to fit up with the seat lug.
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The stays, freshly brazed to the seat lug.
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More careful finishing with 280 grit emery.
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Finally, the finished product. Chris is going with a Campy Super Record group, so what better color than red for an Italian equipped bike.
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Jason's amazing masking skills on display in the super clean shorelines around the head lug.
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I'm really happy with the "fastback" style seat stay attachment. It allows me to use the cool curved brake bridge even on large frames where a side tack arrangement would be too wide for that particular bridge. Plus it looks pretty cool too!
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A nice shot of the inside of the dropout, lots of work goes into those clean points and scallops.
More pics of this one on the website soon.
Cheers,
Dave
1 comment:
Wow, beautiful work!
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