I met the Townsend guy up in Pasadena while I was tabling for one of the bike co-ops he was a nice guy.

A friend of mine Reed has recently started up a frame building company called Golden Pony. Up until this point he was doing Level Components which make some very pretty track hubs. http://www.levelcomponents.com/

contact info is here http://www.levelcomponents.com/news.html