Here are the Lucid 29r close ups

Well I finally painted it and got out on a ride yesterday... it is absolute steel perfection! Buttery smooth ride and stiff as I like it to be...

I used a really nice Kustom Shop paint called HotRod Flatz, it is a flat black with a hardener in it so it doesn't need to be clear coated. It is more durable than most paints and clear coats and looks outstanding...
I did my logo and head badge in hot Flatz Red which looks killer, I think I will do a road frame in the red color.
Everything came out looking perfect, I think all the joints are just perfect.
Even though I will most likely only ever run it as a single speed, I put cable guides for gears just in case.

The Stainless Paragon sliders are nice, I used the aluminum drops for a little weight savings.

Ok now to pick up where I left off on Emily's polished lug road frame. I will try and post pics as I go with that.

Christening of the Lucid 29r

Took me a while but I got it done and painted. I will post more pics of the production and painting along with some good close ups of the joints and what not tomorrow after I take the finished photos... without sounding to biased I think I did a spectacular job! all the joints look perfect.

Mark's Touring Fork...

This is a fork that Mark called me to build for his new Dean Ti frame. It's a straight leg, lugged touring fork with rack tabs for a custom rack.

Brazing the crown to the steerer...

Still hot!

Look at that nice fillet made by the silver inside the crown sockets...

Legs brazed in... still hot!

drop outs on, with a little clean up around the shores... check out the rack tab brazed on to the drop.

Nice and clean around the shores of the brazed areas... almost ready for paint.

Rack tabs, lined up 6.5 inches up from the drop out tabs.

Nice and straight and clean...

I figured I would skip some of the pictures of the paint steps and jump right to finished paint.

Behold;

Mark wanted it painted black with the lug cut outs painted in silver Titanium and the lug shores pin striped with titanium silver...

I had a lot of fun Building this one and Mark was a great customer to work with, I think he is going to love the ride.

John's 0 degree fork for his Kunstrad bike...

This was an odd request but I really liked the idea and hope to see photo's of the final bike once John gets the fork.

Very simple really, this is a 0 degree fork... yep no rake at all. It is for a cool single speed Kunstrad bike (will add photo's later)

I have had nice results with this crown and since it needed to be an inch and an eight steerer this was basically our only choice.

I am really glad I came across these straight in drop outs, they look really cool on the fork.

Brazing the steerer to the crown...

scorching hot... Don't Touch!

Still Hot no touchy!

taking a bath to get the flux/glass off...

right out of the tank still wet...

Getting ready to do a test fit, after cutting the legs to size.

Quick loose fit, test fit... looks pretty square.

Checking the square on my new... well new to me, fork jig.

Fluxed and ready to braze.

Still hot, you can see a little scorching but not bad it dissolves off in the water during soaking so just means I got the flux a little to hot...

One of the many bath's the fork takes during the process...

Quickly going to brazing on the drops after the soak...

After a little clean up, here is the test fit... pretty darn straight.

A close up after some light filing and sanding...

Ready for paint after some little sand blasting...

It was hard to see the different stages of paint since the base coat was white and the paint is white. So here is just one shot in the paint "booth"

And a little out door photog...

I really like how these drop outs look... very modern.

little close up of the crown design...

And last but not least my stamp on the steerer "Lucid 6/10/10" #3 fork sold.

Debi's Fork

Well this was a pretty simple uni-crown fork that Debi asked me to make for her. I used stainless drop out inserts for a polished finish at the drops.

Below is before and after of the drops after removing the rack tabs and brazing on the stainless inserts...

Here are all the parts before assembly and brazing...

The drop outs fitted into the fork legs...

I went through 2 drill bits to finally get the crown drilled for the brake bolt...

here is my home made paint booth, it actually did such a good job I feel like I could paint a whole frame in it... but I think I will come up with a bigger booth for that...

The white above is the direct to metal primer coat... and the black below is the base coat for the deep black finish.

The final coat of black color before the clear coat goes on...

Here is the fork crown after clean up with the clear coat finish and the brake bolt installed...

The drop outs with a polished finish...

And lastly a few shots Debi took of the fork installed on here bike... Looks pretty good. I like the pencil thin fork legs, this fork looks fast!

Debi's mechanic said the fork went on with out a hitch... like it was built for the frame. Well... it actually was built for the frame.

Well I enjoyed making this fork and it looks like I have another one to build for a new customer.

I will update it soon.