Originally Posted by
antokelly
thanks again folks, i had an email from Dave Yates he is fully booked up for this year and next year .
i emailed Paul Villiers in Britain to see if he will take him on but i very much doubt it as he's a very busy man but nothing beats a try as the man said.
i'm not sure if he wants to be a pro builder guess he doesn't know himself until he tries it out but who knows he could be a genius or a total fred wont know until he tries.
Frame building, at least in the U.S., is a tough business. Understandably, most frame builders don't want to spend time training their future competitors.
If your son-in-law doesn't already have training as a welder and machinist he should get that training
before he tries his hand at frame building. I spent a year or two as a hobbyist welder before attempting to build a frame, and even then it was pretty difficult. If your son-in-law shows up in some frame builders shop and doesn't know the basics, he's not going to learn anything about bike building... unless the class lasts for a month or two! Once he knows how to weld and use basic machine shop tools, he can buy a copy of the
Paterek Manual and learn the rest of what he needs to know from the various frame-related Internet forums and mailing lists...