Tapped the BB, reamed and faced the Head tube.
Needs some post braze clean up. As you can see, on the faced part of the headtube There is a good penetration of silver ( the entire frame is silver brazed. yes, its real silver in there. expensive? you bet !! ) between the lug and the tubing. That means, this bike is ready to take on the bad stuff - head on !

A properly reamed and faced headtube is necessary, so that the head set can sit squarely on the headtube, Which results in smoother steering and ofcourse longer bearing life.

Its Steel. Its Lugged, Its got S Bend Seatstays !

Well, This is it, A fully lugged, Steel Cross frame. The bridge, the brake bosses, the cable guides, remain to be attached. Columbus Zona tubing. badass !
And ofcourse the super svelte, super sexy, S bend stays !

27.2 Seatpost Shim

Here is the Seatpost Shim for a 27.2 post. Lathed and milled out of a 304 SS tube.

The slots are here for a couple of reasons, Reduced weight and is a good place to feed in the silver, for a secure bond to the ID of the seat tube.

The top image is of the shim only, and the second pic is of the shim inside the seat tube.

New Stuff !

Sneak preview of whats going on at Psynyde.
new frame ! what type? you'll know once its built !

What you see above are all handcrafted. no powertools were harmed in making these !
Using Columbus Zona tubing.

Cheers !

I was working on this road bike for well over a year. Finally completed the project last month!
I've made bikes before, but none were built with 'finish' in mind. All the bikes I'd made earlier were totally ghetto ! but not the CAFFEINE !
Built from 'Columbus Life' niobium alloy triple butted tubing, this thing totally rocks !
I never intended to make a light frame, I'm not much of a weight weenie, But I'm happy with the way the whole frame turned out, just 1.4 kgs, it really makes my day when I'm out riding. It feels lighter than it actually is, thanks to my downhill bike and my dirt jump bike!
Here's the pic of the machine, taken by my good ol' friend Abhijit Nilakje, this guy is an ace ! visit his blog at http://rockscratcher.blogspot.in/  btw he's got the CAFFEINE there too ! this thing is addictive ! yeahh

Please check out my friend rahuls blog here : https://beingthomas.wordpress.com/
great writing skills and beautiful photograhphy there unlike the one you are browsing NOW !!!
hahah !

the latest stems that i created,

the first ones are dj stems, CNC machined 6082-t6 alloy. 140 grams approx.
30mm reach.

the other one is a XC/Road stem. CNC machined 6082 alloy.