And here we come to the crux of the issue, atmo.
Look at some of the famous marques, and here I'm talking about frames
revered in racing circles. Sometimes the lug work was horrible, filing? maybe a few strokes for
fit, not finish. These were tools of the racer, not some holy grail work of art. I've seen a few
Italian frames sans paint and they ain't pretty. Thats not to say all of them are that way, but a
lot are. Take some of the big French marques, the poor workmanship is legend, then so are the
number of races won on those same frames.
I would say the trend towards more artful lugwork, filing etc. started in England and was
carried over to the U.S. with the big surge in custom builders in the 70s.