4.26.11 I am back in town after a week long road trip in Asheville, NC. Went down with some friends to sleep in tents, jump in a river and check out the town.
I am just wrapping up a single speed frame for Mr. Damon out in San Francisco. It has internal routing for the rear brake and a custom wishbone. I will take some pics as soon as I find ma dang camera.
In less cool news, you may notice my pricing changing a bit. Due to big jumps in the cost of silver and paint services, I need to adjust to make sure I can keep doing what I love to do.
4.7.11 Icarus lugged tourer ready for paint, just trying to figure out the scheme. This on is actually going to a different painter than usual. Tim Dixon, who has been painting some of the Royal H frames lately will be tackling it. I have been meaning to get a frame to him for a while now, and can’t wait to see how it comes out.
Oh yeah, it also has a spoke holder….i should take pictures of that.
3.23.11 Copper head badge and a Columbus MAX tubeset.
Junie’s frame is off at hot tubes getting some sort of hot oil mystery process paintjob from Toby and I am just about finished With Daniel’s Lugged tourerer. One special thing he wanted for the frame was a hand carved copped headbadge like I did back on a couple early frames. I cut it out of copper and then punched some little circles in it to be filled with silver. The end effect will be a one of a kind feather badge that has a bit more beat up look, especially one the copper is exposed to the elements of the road. 
Oh and look, one of the Columbus MAX tubesets showed up today. It is one of the new batches from Columbus who decided to re introduce the legendary tubeset with the classic shapes but an updated steel alloy. Can’t wait to try it out but gotta ignore it for now.
3.8.11 Fine art and frowning frame builders near forks. I don’t think I posted about the oil painting our friend Clark Filio made for the philly bike expo last year. We finally got it back and hanging up in our shop. I wonder who those dashing figures are.
Here is Junie’s new fork fitted for a low rider front rack, mini v brakes and a fender. Those mounts in the middle go straight through to accommodate one one bolt rather then one one each side.
Brazed in fender mount, just in the back since there won’t be a brake going through the front.
more feathers and threaded doodads
3.4.11 Today I tried to take pictures of a frame I just picked up from the painter. Problem is that its gloss black and i can’t figure out how the hell to take pictures of it. I can tell you that it has the new Icarus track dropouts, a simple seat tube sleeve, and a big logo on the underside of the downtube. Its headed to the Ukraine! I can’t wait until my soviet submarine shows up as payment.
like trying to photograph oil, whatever I just build em. it looks silky slick in person.
3.3.11 A teaser of Junie’s new frame nearing completion. More on Flickr
3.3.11 Been moving along on two touring bikes, on opposite ends of the Icarus style/shape continuum. Hopefully I can get them both painted and photographed together. One is lugged….weird huh?
Oh yeah, NAHBS happened! I didn’t get to go this year but was happy to hear about Bishop and mr.611 winning some best bike awards. They are some cool dudes. I visited their booths via Greg’s ipad on skype who was kind enough to carry me around the show for a bit.
Also, do you live near a Market Basket? For most of my life I would have answered, “no, what is that? Tell me more!”, but the shop I moved into a little under two years ago is just two blocks from one.
If you are unfamiliar with the chain, let me tell you about it! everything is cheap, real cheap. You know those giant odwalla jugs that make you think, “I’m not paying $8 for some fruit mash!” well at the Basket, only $4.99 oh and what is that next to the odwalla? A whole roast chicken for $3.99…not a sale, every ding dong day! If that wasn’t reason enough, you can also get Ben and Jerry’s 2 for $5! What a great way to supplement a mostly ramen and peanut butter frame builder’s diet.
