mmmmmmm.... work of art...

Just finished reading Robert Penn's 'Its all about the Bike' where he describes the process of being measured and then having built for him a hand-built frame from one of the last few craftsmen in the UK.. The way he described it there was a lot more done 'by hand and by eye', like shaping the matching halves of a joint on a belt sander little by little by trial and error, rather than machining it out as shown here... the welding jig looks remarkably similar to his description though...