Dreesens Bicycles
Steel bicycles by Peter DreesensArchive for September, 2010
Tough as nails…pinned construction.
From Peter: “Pinned Construction: An old school way of positioning tubes in lugs used before elaborate brazing fixtures. Used by the Italian masters when frames were made one at a time. Thought of as a crude method. If done well the result will be perfect alignment and it was quicker than using my jig! The masters used actual nails, I modernized, those are short cut sections of a 2mm DT spoke.”
* Note – Peter doesn’t usually pin his lugs. Brazing is his method of choice.
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