Frame Building Course Gallery

Just some of the work you’ll be doing when you build your own frame…

demonstrating lug filing

Checking the tubing for straightness

a well earned pint!

starting a build

checking the tubes

practice brazing

fork crown half filed

a proud moment

more filing!

rear dropouts tacked

track dropouts

aligning rear wheel

Everything we need to start the build

Seat tube brazed into bottom bracket, plenty of silver all the way through

Day 1 Schedule

frame built, braze-ons to do

finding the butts

brazing practice

Fluxing the seat lug

brazing the bottom bracket shell

filing the seat lug

filing fork dropouts

frame coming together now..

checking frame alignment

checking the mitre is square

facing the head tube

Brazing the bottom bracket

Flusing the bottom bracket shell

everything you need for 2 frames

Tacking the seat tube

deciding on the build

admiring the build

brazing the bottom bracket

Preparing the lugs