Was a Colorado company getting a Russian Aerospace company to make frames

And forks ,

but the making a seamless tapered fork blade required the resources
of an aerospace aircraft component maker , in order to pull that off..

typically the smaller shops use straight tubing,
even cutting out sheet and welding it into a tapered blade,

would be more than you guys would be willing to pay.

And Teledyne used CP tube, that came from piping used in really caustic materials
that would react to and/or eat up any other metals ..

Now there is the alloys ( "3-2, 6-4" ) that have more useful properties..



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