It's been a busy week for me. First, I finished the replacement fork for my track bike. It came together really nicely, and required no post-brazing alignment. After a little clean-up with emery cloth, it was off to the powdercoaters to get a lick of 'precious steel pearl'. I'm using a new powdercoaters who so far seem very laid back. Let's hope that translates to 'easy to deal with' rather than 'incompetent and lazy'.

With the fork out of the way there was really no excuse left to prevent me from finishing off the wishbone rear end on my road frame. Way back in the mists of time I had brazed the wishbone connector into the 19mm connector tube. This left me with the following tasks to complete:

• mitering the connector tube to fit the seat tube;
• brazing the chainstays into the wishbone piece;
• brazing the connector tube to the back of the seat tube on the specially reinforced seat lug; and
• brazing the dropouts in place.

I really should have taken more photos to document this momentous day, but my focus was on finishing the damn thing rather than blogging it. But I did take a couple. So now the flux is soaked off and the long process of clean-up begins.




There is an unfortunate amount of surface rust on the tubes thanks to the condensation in the shed, so it will require a fair bit of careful work with the emery cloth before I can call it good. I have no doubt that the clean-up will reveal a heap of little defects that need to be corrected, but that's life. I'm already thinking of the next frame: a disc braked cyclocross steed.