Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - lugs, schmugs

sure i have some lugs too..but this ones for the "lugs or death" peeps..

fillet brazed is the ****! recognize..

oooo
http://www.nanocycles.com/karagoz_bicycles/filletBB.jpg

ahhh
http://www.bilenky.com/images/RaamDogwood.jpg

broke down and still sexy..
http://static.flickr.com/86/234322744_9ff13e9a38.jpg

lugs > *

Fillet brazing is the hottest-looking framebuilding method IMHO. Filed-down welds are also fine by me, but some say it weakens the weld, so let it be fillet.

Fillet brazing is the hottest-looking framebuilding method IMHO. Filed-down welds are also fine by me, but some say it weakens the weld, so let it be fillet.
+aliens. Fillet brazed frames make me want to pour chocolate sauce on them, just to watch it flow over those curves... Maybe that's a bit to personal.

I used to be all floored by crazy lugwork, and have dreams about curly stay Hetchin's...
Not no mo, it seems. Something so sublime about the fillet. And, correct me if I'm wrong DW, but that **** ain't easy.
When I learned more about frame building, I learned, like in everything else I do, that simple and clean is usually best. Victorians are fine, but I'll take a Shaker saltbox any day.

My bike has lugs, but I like the Filet o' Fish sandwich at McDonalds too.

mingon > o'fish.

its the bronze mound joining the tubes. and if my high school french serves me well, means ribbon?

In a fillet braze the braze material forms a joining structure called a fillet...what 128 said.

Fillet is to "round off". The tubes are cut to fit eachother, a filler material is used to join them, and then the weld is smoothed down to appear as the tubes are joined as one.

While we are at this...I am going to offer a $300 discount to the first person to correctly tell me what the definition of "Fillet" is as it applies to brazing/welding, etc.

*fine print.
Offer not valid with any other coupons, discounts, etc.
Void where prohibited.

DW
A fusion weld, other than a butt, edge or fusion spot weld, which is approximately triangular in transverse cross-section.

sheldon brown -> glossary -> F -> fillet braze.

if he doesn't want it can i have it? hah

ill pass, thanks tho don! I cant afford a custom even with a discount :)

Is it just me, or are there too many cables on that bike for it to be a singlespeed/fixie?

hey don, i know you're frames start at 2k, but do you work with true temper? could you thrown an s3 shaped downtube on an ox platinum frame, and would using a shaped s3 top tube as a downtube be detrimental in any way? and how much (in the ballpark) would something like that set me back? just curious...if that's something we don't discuss in the forum, feel free to pm me or something.

-jason

when i get my custom frame, it will have a bb cluster lug, and all the other joints will be fillet brazed

its a road bike

its a road bike

That's weird. I thought this was a singlespeed/fixie forum.

thats weird, i thought that this was a website called bikeforums.net and this was a subforum about single speed and fixed gear bicycles, but figured people on it would have an interest in bikes in general. not to mention the thread is about welds...

That's weird. I thought this was a singlespeed/fixie forum.

since im enjoying you getting all ruffled.. ill let you in on a lil secret... that first BB is from a road bike too..

no road bikes allowed. youre breaking my heart.

pm sent
thanks again

Wait you're currently "homeless" and your looking at buying a 2k frame?

That's trustfund-punk as ****.

Wait you're currently "homeless" and your looking at buying a 2k frame?

That's trustfund-punk as ****.

im not gonna lie. i laughed. out loud too.

hahaha. negative. i i'm not homeless in milwaukee, but if i moved to chicago i would be, and i wouldn't have been in chicago long, just until breakaway needed someone. no sense in staying in a motel that long, and no sense renting a place only to move out shortly...not paying extra for stuff is a good way to be able to afford other things. that, and priorities man! (and getting parts at cost gets me lots of extra money for things that i can't get at cost.) oh yeah, that, and ... jealous much?

-jason

( i kid about you being jealous...i'm just sayin.)

Then you gotcher tig welded frames slathered in god knows what kinda plastic body filler to make them look fillety. Shameful!
(Actually, not a bad looking frame what with those Paul style ends)

http://www.hubjub.co.uk/fixieinc/fixpm.htm

Or are the welds just ground smooth? Can't tell.

Or are the welds just ground smooth? Can't tell.

they would have to add some serious filler rod during the welding process to end up with joints like that. I would bet on bondo or something similar.

an aside, I told an old school welder about fillet brazed frames, I think his response was "that sounds like a lot of work, **** that."

Speaking of gorgeous fillet brazes, adamkell's Yamaguchi comes to mind...

http://adamkell.com/misc/bikes/behindRight_s.jpg

Got any better shots, adam?

i like where this is going...

(only because now all the hipsters will sell their lugged frames on ebay, flooding the market and driving cost down. YAY CONFORMITY!!!!!!!)

yes cheap lugs mmm hmm yeah get me thron for a bill watch

Speaking of gorgeous fillet brazes, adamkell's Yamaguchi comes to mind...

http://adamkell.com/misc/bikes/behindRight_s.jpg

Got any better shots, adam?

**** my a. Jesum crow that's a sexy bike.

EDIT: I think I came.

Then you gotcher tig welded frames slathered in god knows what kinda plastic body filler to make them look fillety. Shameful!
(Actually, not a bad looking frame what with those Paul style ends)

http://www.hubjub.co.uk/fixieinc/fixpm.htm
I concur. Makes me wish I didn't have to pay the exchange on that thing. And it does have a VERY hot paintjob.

I hate you adamkell. Your bike and maybe three others around here make me so jealous. bloody gorgeous bike.