Originally Posted by
4Rings6Stars
Are you building bikes? I remember a while back seeing that you were apprenticing. I got as far as buying an oxy-acet setup and all the tubes, lugs, dropouts etc. for a frame... Once I can get some workshop space I'm anxious to start practicing brazing. I also want to lean towards fillet brazing because I like the look and the flexibility (over size / differing size tubing, strange angles, compact geo...etc). Also because I can't afford silver to practice with!
I am currently hunting for shop space so I can set up a new shop... will be working primarily with brass and will be filet brazing and would like to build some lugged frames at some point as well.
The brazing is the easier part... designing the frame and doing all the prep work is where most of the work lies and once things are ready for brazing the work tends to move along pretty quickly.
You can do silver and brass with oxy / propane... acetylene is nasty stuff and propane is more readily available.