I definitely agree with the jig approach. I couldn't find a local framebuilder who had bandwidth/interest & didn't want to go through a shipping/packing cycle. Building it up and riding it is good enough for me, but not objective enough for assurances to a buyer. I had a Tommaso I rode for a number of years, got in a couple of minor accidents that didn't seem any worse than some rash. But then several years after the last accident, I was stripping the bike down and found a classic underside of downtube bubble. But I never noticed anything wrong about the bike before that.

I actually almost threw this away a couple of times. It has been a slow recovery at my age and just tossing this frame is a lot easier than other alternatives, including selling it. I hardly need $100/$200 that it seems like it may go for and what I need even less is an ebay buyer feeling he has been misled or ripped off. So to be honest, I was hesitant about selling it w/the uncertainty that surrounds such a sale. But each time I went to throw it away, it just seemed such a shame for such a beautiful frame that may well be fine but even if not, may be salveagable, and even if not that, some wall hanging somewhere. I finally concluded I wouldn't ever just put it in the trash and I didn't have the energy to deal with the other options, so let someone else w/more energy/interest deal with it.

What has been interesting is some of the messages I've been getting from buyers/lookers. There is clearly a not insubstantial group of people who would like nothing more than to have a shot at a top end frame like this with their Park frame tools and the idea that this frame may be bent not only doesn't slow them down a whole lot, it is why they are interested in it. I may end up being the first guy in ebay history to have a frame returned to me, get abusive low feedback, because the frame isn't bent.