Mark- Leaving the seat tube extending past the top of the seat lug has a few purposes. It leaves a place to flow/drain braze in case you load the lug too much allowing a clean shore line with complete flow through. The longer ST makes eyeballing the frame alignment easier if you're using a rear wheel. If you like to have the top of the seat lug real pointy then doing this last helps to limit the exposure and damage during finishing and handling. And lastly the extra tubing can offer more angles of access when clamping the frame in a vice via a block. I'll leave the head tube long also for the same reasons.
>I was going to say the same - great work there and I love the "35" in the
> bottom bracket. Looks like a true modern classic in the making.
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> Quick question - why do you build the seat lug with the tube uncut, to be
> lopped off and finish filed later ? Does this give you an easy way to
> handle the frame as you work on it ?
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> And yeah, that Anvil jig is awesome!
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> Mark Petry
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