Re: [CR]Conversations on wheel building...are there great wheelbuildersand why are they better than others?

(Example: Framebuilders:Chris Pauley)

Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 18:50:08 -0700
Subject: Re: [CR]Conversations on wheel building...are there great wheelbuildersand why are they better than others?
From: "Bill Bryant" <bill_bryant@prodigy.net>
To: <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
In-Reply-To: <3F022F9E.DE9405B4@earthlink.net>


No, I wrote he had a special product, not the actual name of it.

But true enough, I'm sure we're all in the Sacred Circle and dare not utter the magic words upon loss of honor. It's just that I'd have thought someone, somewhere would have spilled the beans by now... ;-)

Bill Bryant Santa Cruz, CA

on 7/1/03 6:05 PM, Chuck Schmidt at chuckschmidt@earthlink.net wrote:
> Bill Bryant wrote:
>>
>> Not necessarily so...
>> One wheelbuilding technique that I haven't seen on the 'net, in a book or
>> video yet is the material Spence put onto spoke threads prior to building.
>> He asked me not to share it with anyone and so I haven't. All these years
>> later, I'm not aware of anyone else mentioning it. (cut)
>
> You're not aware of anyone else mentioning it Bill!?!?!? (Errrr, Bill,
> you just mentioned it!)
>
> But why would you be aware of anyone else mentioning the "secret sauce"
> Bill? We are all sworn to secrecy just like you and intend to take
> Spence's secret formula to our graves!!!
>
> Chuck "in The Circle of Trust" Schmidt
> South Pasadena, Southern California

>

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