3rd class-

The fork blades section of my homework was approved, but the drawing on one of my lugs needed to be altered because it wasn’t going to allow enough solder to penetrate and hold. OK by me since I was mostly just extending the cuts to elongate the points. I didn’t do anything wild and fancy. One of the guys spent a solid 2 hours on drawing a couple letters in his lugs and cutting then filing them out. He took em home for more work! Lugs- tedious work for sure.
The Klunker bike work was mostly spent on mitering the chainstays to fit the bottom bracket shell at the correct angle and then fillet brazing the stays to the shell.

I started the day cutting and filing the seat tube to fit into the bottom bracket. The majority of my time was split between the various belt sanders and a vice where I slowly made progress on the lugs. Getting them so the curves are symmetrical is seriously tough, but I am mostly done! I did bring the head tube lugs home to work on one area on each that is slightly high compared to the other side. Symmetry will be mine!


At the end of the day, Jeff demonstrated brazing on one of my fork blades and then I worked on the other. Holy hell I am a bad student! But nothing is ruined…because he took over and helped show me how to move the brass around once its melted onto the fork.
It can only go up from here!

Jeff and another student working on brazing a fork end
My lug where the head tube and top tube meet, beginning file work
Extending the seat collar lug
More seat collar lug filing to be done