Now for the fun part...

This was really exciting and absolutely scary as hell all at the same time... I decided even thought this is my first frame I wanted to do some nicer detail touches. So internal cable routing is one of them along with some other braze-on goodies.

After looking at some other builders designs and learning from what I could see in their production photo's I new to use internal brass tubing and braze in these ferels. I decided that I will try to do an internal fillet because there are some little gaps to fill since the angel of the ferels doesn't match the tubing cut/mitter very well. As you can see I loaded up the silver... I think it is either because I couldn't tell that the hole was filled or if the silver expanded a little after it cooled.

*** A side note*** take a look at the head tube... yeah it was the worst of all my joints because I wanted to make sure there was silver going into the mitter... but I also got some gaps in weird places... so I had to go back reheat and add silver... wow that is ugly!

So here I started to cut off the excess ferel to open up the inlet for the cable housing... I was very nervous because I really didn't know whatto expect.

More grinding and taking my time at that!

So after some filing and triming of the inside... it doesn't look to bad?

Well this was well worth the experience because I am more than happy with the outcome, even though the holes aren't the same size or length they do match up well enough that I will put braze-on internal cable covers and it will look spectacular. Don't get me wrong I want to leave these open because with paint on them you would barely be able to notice the the slight alingment issue... but with brased on covers over the holes I will be able to align them perfectly and symetrically. I will work on a way to match the holes up so they will be able to be left un covered to give a cleaner look.

I really wish I could get a shot if the internal fillet, it came out really nice.

I definately learned alot with this round of brazing, I also feel that filling gaps with 56% silver is much easier than working with brass rod. and I will really focus on taking my time in heating and watching the temps on the next round of brazing as well as keeping the silver in the right place. I did a little reading online and figured out a few things I was doing wrong and to help keep everything much cleaner. I eventually want to be able to braze well enough to just clear coat a frame and showoff the seams.