Is this what you would do?
11-04-17 | 09:05 AM
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No. I would have faced the bottom bracket. 
11-04-17 | 09:36 AM
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I have actually done that, sort of! I had a 1980 Holdsworth that I loved but was a bit short. So I gave it to my son, who fits it perfectly. But before I did that, I had R&E Cycles copy it in a slightly taller frame, with lugged 531 of course.
11-04-17 | 11:58 AM
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