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Little fillet. Looks nice but sadly it’s got to go.

That little fillet was really nice, heavy on the tip, six others were similar, but for me NOT to file them off, All eight have to be spot on, and 24 of them on a full bike. Instead of trying to make the braze perfect, I need to perfect the technique of hiding imperfections with the torch, otherwise I’ll never be able to do 24, and one wrong one means it gets filed, it looks different, so all get filed. It just a rule that I made up because suffering is in my soul.

Maybe, if I have a little blob, at the tip of the scallops is easy or tip of the knife or in between , I could lead it back and pull it into the forkblade somehow. A little journey.

The fillet in the fork blades, I’m really happy with though, but cleaning up the pockets a little anyway. I need some French master to show me some shit, like Peter Weigle.:)

What I should do is make a bunch of mock-ups and just totally be a brazing fool with them, I don’t have to worry about screwing them up, just practice moving the braze around. I mean I have already done that many times, just need more. I think I can do it!

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Uploaded on February 24, 2021
Taken on February 23, 2021