Brian Baylis writes:
" Actual lugwork, which most bikes built post 1976 or so don't even have, is unknown. What is "lugwork" anyway? Once the lug is shaped the layperson may never know what it looked like originally. Or it could be a "fancy" lug like a Nervex pro but because it got stuck on RAW to a Schwinn Paramount, suddenly it's lugwork."
Brilliant observation Brian. You are correct Sir. Our vocabulary tends to call "lugwork" the process of brazing and cleaning up after oneself, if I understand your comment. But, real lugwork involves the modification of the lug from its original form, whether by filing, cutting, or whatever. So, if I take NOS Henry James lugs and fit them to a set of tubes and braze them, I really haven't done ANY lugwork, I have only joined some pieces of metal together. But, if I file those same lugs to very thin points at the junction with the tube then I have done lugwork, right? Do I have this correct? If I bend the lugs to fit the frame angle and that is all I do is that lugwork? Lou Deeter, Orlando FL "I'm learning at the feet of the Master"