Isn't there a practical benefit to very thin lugs that is not realized if you wait until the bike is brazed to thin them out? Don't thin lugs provide better heat soak in less time, or something like that? Or is the benefit independent of when the thinning is done, such as getting a more resilient joint irrespective of whether is it thinned before or after?
Or, are we talking exclusively (rather than primarily) about asthetics?
Isn't filing lugs after the fact about a thousand times more difficult? I always thought a good frame was made by first prepping the lugs, then brazing it very neatly, and then doing almost no filing or sanding as touchup. Isn't tidying up a frame that nobody could be bothered to do carefully in the first place a bit of a stockings on a pig scenario?
When is a Rensho no longer a Rensho?
And, really, isn't Garth just pulling our collective leg?
Tom Dalton Bethlehem, PA USA
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