e-RICHIE and I were conversing (via e-mail) and I mentioned the thread and his previous post about lugs and joining methods. e-RICHIE kindly sent me the quote which I will post here for your edification
"lugs are not lugs for the sake of beauty or touchy-feely conversing about; they constitute a joining process. it is this joining process, coupled with certain types of quality steel as well as with the "maker's touch" (stradivari's varnish?) that produces the <incomparable> work that folks associate with all lugged frames - but really should be associated with quite few."
and... "a kof is a guy that was there then and is still here now. grabbing a lug an using it has no bearing on the status."
Interesting in light of our KOF discussion
Marty Eison
Dallas, Texas