Joined: Jun 2010
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From: Medford MA
Bikes: Ron Cooper touring, 1959 Jack Taylor 650b ladyback touring tandem, Vitus 979, Joe Bell painted Claud Butler Dalesman, Colin Laing curved tube tandem, heavily-Dilberted 1982 Trek 6xx, René Herse tandem
If it helps in reshaping the head, the flickr album in an earlier post here has a French caption which says the flattening of the head of the spoke was done by striking it (presumably with a hammer or other such forging device). I would start by trying that (on some scrap spokes first!)
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Owner & co-founder, Cycles René Hubris. Unfortunately attaching questionable braze-ons to perfectly good frames since about 2015. With style.