Any home brew jobs here?

[unclefuzzy]

Who's confident enough here? Who's made their own frame with their own hands - NOT is one of the schools either. Show 'em off!

I want to be inspired to do my own. Hmmm, monster cross, lugged, Heavy Mettle tubing? Sounds good to me!

[rockhound]

I've cut off my geared dropouts and brazed in some track ends for singlespeed use.

[BMAC]

I have pictures of a SS and a 5" squish frame that I built but I can't shrink them to fit the forum.

[BMAC]

Here's a couple that I'm riding now.The SS will get a 29" front wheel next week to try a 69er.The squish just had Surly Instigator drop outs put on and I'm making a new shock mount for a different Fox shock.All tubing is True Temper,OX Platinum on the SS and OX Gold on the squish.

[rockyrider]

One lasting lesson I learned from my grandfather is that you can build anything if you want to take the time to do it.

That's cool, I always wanted to take a frame building course, I should have done it before my eyeballs developed the usual problem of my arms being too short to get things in focus.

[INDIGOSKY]

Here's my scorcher...

and a detail I did on a frame for my wife...

[BMAC]

Nice touch on that frame,how about some specs on tubing,etc.I need some details for my next frame.

[myron]

I have pictures of a SS and a 5" squish frame that I built but I can't shrink them to fit the forum.

Once I get off my ass there will be another...

Thanks to you:D

[50 Mission Cap]

Here's my scorcher...

and a detail I did on a frame for my wife...

Beautiful - is that a cross specific bike?

[Tman]

Call me a masochist, I am still building the shop that will house the tooling! Did score a new torch (thanks Grayboy!) and am in the hunt for a new lathe. Building a combo sander table to prep brackets and tubing as we speak.

[rockhound]

Call me a masochist, I am still building the shop that will house the tooling! Did score a new torch (thanks Grayboy!) and am in the hunt for a new lathe. Building a combo sander table to prep brackets and tubing as we speak.

Hey Tman!

How's it going? It sounds like you are on the same wavelength as me. I just got a new rolling tool chest and am in the process of fixing up the garage and man cave.

[Tman]

Hey Tman!

How's it going? It sounds like you are on the same wavelength as me. I just got a new rolling tool chest and am in the process of fixing up the garage and man cave.

Rock, the mancave is good. People come from miles around to witness the shear magnitude of such a place! Or maybe that was family from Mn for Thanksgiving?:o

Between finishing up the living quarters and playing with a new Flathead Model A project I am working on the tooling I mentioned above.

Back to the original question at the top of this thread.......hell ya! I can and will build ANYTHING I want. No bragging, just like my time in the shop. I have built antique cars,rifles, houses and soon bike frames. I am lucky to have the skills, I owe a great deal to my pop and grandads. It is only metal afterall, cut,grind,weld........:)

[K-Man]

It is only metal afterall, cut,grind,weld........:)

That's right.

And, if we were afraid of a little fire and smoke, that bright and shiny stuff would still be rocks in the earth. ;)

[Tman]

Ooooo! Fire!

[tryandgetme]

It is only metal afterall, cut,grind,weld........:)

yup, it might put up a good fight at first, but you can always win.

by the way, if anyone wants to try a cheap flux core wirefeed welder on bike tubing, let me save you the trouble by saying it acts more like a plasma cutter...toooo much penetration. I started using it to rough cut bike tubing by turning the voltage way up and moving fast.

[rockhound]

I think it's been posted before, but here it is again.

It started life as a HooKoo E Koo.

[myron]

yup, it might put up a good fight at first, but you can always win.

by the way, if anyone wants to try a cheap flux core wirefeed welder on bike tubing, let me save you the trouble by saying it acts more like a plasma cutter...toooo much penetration. I started using it to rough cut bike tubing by turning the voltage way up and moving fast.

I added brake studs to a cheap frame a while back with a wire feed. I would suspect higher end tubing would be much harder to weld though. The cheep high ten tube was fairly easy. I've noticed with brazing that the higher quality the tube, the harder it is to work with. The Cinelli shit I'm working with now seems to repel brass at an alarming rate.

[mudfly]

Been elsewhere for awhile...

A couple of months ago I did a repaint on "Zeke" my second MTB frame that I built in 1986 when frame gussets and Girvin Flex stems were way cool. The base paint and clear was left over from repainting a bro's Vespa scooter.

22 years so far on a 531 frame built with a Benzomatic mapp torch and a half round file. I still ride it everyday.

http://home.nycap.rr.com/richboat/zeke1s.jpg

Zeke last winter just before repaint

http://home.nycap.rr.com/richboat/zeke1.jpg

[fudgedit]

Nice bike...nicer avatar Phineas!!

[BMAC]

My current set-up as a 69er,next plans for it is to shorten the fork and add a EBB.

[sublimeride]

Nice 69er bmac.I started out with a dirtjumper and iam in the proccess of building a 29er.I will post pics soon.Looks great guys.

[RideOrDieDan]

some great lookin bike! its has to be fun to build your own, to ride it and show it off. wish I was into cycling when I was in highschool and in the metal shop.