Originally Posted by old's'cool

That is the picture I was referring to. The pic in post #52 is a little more ambiguous-- if forgings they are pretty sleazy looking, yet if stampings, there's been some significant post-processing to create the rounded edges. On close comparison of the two photos however, there is nothing to suggest the dropouts in the two photos are actually different; only that one set has been brazed into a frame, with brazed eyelets added. So now I'm accepting JohnDThompson's assertion that they are in fact stamped, abeit with significant post stamping prep to make them look "nice". Either that, or a quasi-forging process, where the stamping die is not merely a cookie cutter, but has a female contour that creates the rounded edges that are so evident in the photos.