cnighbor@pacbell.net wrote: I love the work of frame builders like Sachs with the wonderful thin edge lugs however I also like a lug with a thicker edge. To be it states it purpose in a very masculine way. A thin edge is to me a more feminism approach. Like golf to football. Finest to brute strength. I own both types and love both approaches. Just my opinion. ===
thanks, charles... this summons up memories of a past thread regarding zen, lugs, soul, and twizzlers. i keep most of these around, so finding a snip for clarity's sake is easy. e-RICHIE chester, ct here: because i think about frames as well as make them, my thought on this issue is that a frame is a unit, a life form if you will. i see the work going into making a lug, or refining a lug, or adding adornment to a lug as part of the process rather than <the> process. in essence, for me, all the energy spent on creating any one detail of a frame should be spread to the making of it in its entirety. the lugs are not the frame. the geometry is not the frame. the alignment is not the frame. the material is not the frame. the frame is the frame.