Originally Posted by
mudboy
... just as there are people who post "Is this a real Cinelli" in the C&V forums because a builder used a Cinelli-stamped shell or crown. If I do go with RS dropouts, I would probably fill the lettering with silver and file it smooth.
I would mill the face like Confente and many others did. Richard did too way back. The name would be just cuttings on the shop floor. Less heat, more stylish too.
I always laugh about the Cinelli bottom bracket shell convincing so many that "it's a Cinelli, it is stamped right into the shell"
The RS stamped vintage dropouts require lots of effort to make them Italian pretty, everybody who used them way back was faced with the "same marble to sculpt" if you will.