A recent eBay find is a frameset marked "Ron Blanton 1987," and my Internet searches have turned up zilch on this framebuilder. It's quite a nice rig: Reyonlds 531 Professional tubing, good quality lugwork, including the builder's initials/logo built into the seat lug, nicely mitered tubes at the bottom bracket (which is English threaded). Overall weight of frame/fork/headset is a touch over 5 lbs, which for a 23" frame is likely the lightest in my fleet. Unfortunately, the seat tube has a couple of dings, and the right-side chainstay looks like some numbskull squeezed it with some channel locks in order to get more clearance.

If anyone has any info on this builder, let me know.

Thanks,

Neal