Originally Posted by Scooper

In 2005, when I first began discussions with Richard Schwinn about having Waterford build a 953 frameset, he was very reluctant; if he used pre-aged tubes he thought it would trash his tooling, and if he used tubes without aging and then aged the built frame in an oven, he was afraid the frame would warp out of alignment.

Eventually, they decided to use pre-aged tubes and accept the increased wear on tooling, building the tooling wear costs into the price of the frames.