I already discussed this with [MENTION=136384]unterhausen[/MENTION] on a ride last week, so I thought it best to share photos and ask opinions of other frame builders. Here's what I'm looking at:

It's a fillet brazed steel frame with copper colored powder coat. The powder coat is flaking away from the sharp edge at the top of the seat stay caps.



On the right side, a small flake came off; and I glued it back on with super glue:


I don't see any other cracks:



The seat stay tops are caps brazed into the tube tops, as you can see from this pre-paint photo:


The frame has some damage to the left front dropout and to the derailleur hanger (you can find those photos by looking around in that album on flickr if you want), but has not been crashed.

So my question is, simply, are we looking at a paint issue, or is there some deeper issue?

Thanks in advance!