Originally Posted by
Andrew R Stewart
MassiveD- You're asking the wrong person but I'll give you my understanding.
There are a few issues going on here. One is joint stability/alignment during brazing. It has been said by many that the better your miters are the less the after brazing alignment issues will be. The joint will tent to shift and if the miters are tight and consistent there will be no space for shifting to occur.
Seems to me that most of the luminaries these days are supporters of pining, which may or not benefit from this as you say. I still come down to the fact that the majority of joints have no interface, compared to Tig where they all may (not that that is relevant to whatever is happening in lugs, just interesting). A TIG frame could have something like 11 miters, where the lugged would be say 4 or more.
I just think it is yet another thing the lugmasters say without really thinking over whether it is actually happening or not. More pixie dust.
I do appreciate people rising to the challenge on this, and putting out some interesting answers. I take it all seriously, I am just in skeptic mode for the sake of the argument.