Do or not do, there is no "try"
Only a true Jedi Master could sum life up so well.
I have seen pictues of you and you hide you green skin and diminutive stature well.
Thanks for heads up on shiny stuff. I appreciate the corrosive chemicals involved in Chrome plating, but I had not considered that it may limit the thickness of the tube walls you could safely apply it to. As I have no desire for a frame made out of recycled scaffold poles, so I think you may have helped me rule chroming out. Mind you, looking at the Mercian cyles prices, chroming lugs, crown and dropouts is gonna cost well north of £200.
I assume if the stainless lugs are sourced (I have my eyes on a snappy set of Fleur de Lys lugs at Ceeway) then could their polishing be farmed out prior to the commencement of the build?
My other question concerns tubing diameters. I have a 531c Allin frame built for me umpteen years ago by Cliff Shrubb. It is a lovely thing with a joyous ride, but at 24" Seat tube length it has always been a little whippy. When time trialling in the 80s this was not that big an issue because my 6'3"only weighed a paltry 9st 6lbs. 20 years of sex drugs and rock and roll (well, pasties and kebabs and rock and roll in reality) see me carrying a good 15st and I think this may be making my bike feel even more whippy. I could well be imagining it, but I got to thinking about oversize tubing (still retained within and oversize set of Fley Di Lys lugs). How much of a difference to the ride would oversize tubing make?
And one more question; do your Jedi powers stretch to the manipulation of time as I would love to attend your framebulding course, and you are booked up until the next glacial epoch?
And many thanks for making yourself available to answer questions on a forum.
Stig