Originally Posted by unterhausen

I'd say you got lucky with that frame, most of the ones I've seen from that era are a real mess. The thing is, I don't really see anything wrong with the older UK/European frames that were made of top end materials with poor finishing. The idea that you would spend so much time filing lugs and cleaning up brazing material really was not something that occurred to the people that made these frames, and it doesn't affect their performance at all.