It doesn't force me to learn much as I can do everything pretty much. I've worked in a bike shop when I lived in Oregon(Medford)and took my framebuilding course and went to school for metal fabrication so I'm not wet behind the ears turning a wrench or putting a bike together. Just frame tools like reamers and facers are crazy expensive. The park head tube reamer, facing and bb tool would easily run me over a grand. I haven't found much on the Icetoolz kit but I'm saving up for it instead of searching anymore.

Velocivixen...I worked at a shop in Medford called Cycle Sport. The owner of the shop actually owned UBI and sold it to the current owner. One of our mechanics went on from the shop and now teaches at UBI also and our manager at the shop moved up to Portland last year to help open Western Bikeworks. We were out there from June 2012 to this past June and moved back to the midwest. I miss the scenery but not the price to live to it. Plus it's nice being back by my family again.

"Woodsy" is my crazy hardwood dowels frame I'm building. It's something that's been brewing in the back of my head and I finally decided to build it. It's not like the other wood frame out there where everything laminated. There's a thread somewhere probably a few pages back. I just haven't updated lately but pretty much done. If I can find a place to ream and face the head tube I can start building it up and see if my crazy idea actually works.