Nich's Fork

Nich found me through my Ebay store and order this lugged fork that I was selling as an add on to my fixie frame.

This will be a straight leg fork at 45 degree rake in the crown.

minutes after brazing.

After soaking in hot water and a little wire brushing to get a couple little black soot spots off.

Looking in the cavity of the crown you can see the nice fillet the silver makes around the sockets. This means this fork crown is now one single piece with the steerer tube, the two pieces of steel are complete bonded together.

After some quick filing and sanding clean up, cleaned up the little spots of silver left on the steerer.

About to braze the legs into the crown, the clamps are only holding the points of the crown sockets with light pressure. This is to make sure there are not gaps so the silver does not have to fill in or build up to bond the socket points onto the fork legs.

After soaking the crown and drop outs, I am sanding and filing every thing now.

Nice smooth steerer integration after a little filing, It looks like one piece now.

A little more sanding and it will be ready for paint...

I do all my own painting now so I though I will show a little of the process, this a direct to metal base coat. Its thick enough to sand and smooth for the next base coat layer...

Since the fork will be black, this is a black base coat. It makes the semi opaque black color seem very deep and rich with black.

One more coat of black base after this and it will be ready for the color...

After the final coat of black I did a silver highlight inside the sockets. It's hard to see here but I also added just a little metallic silver very lightly sprayed over the black to give it a little more depth and sparkle... it adds a cool effect you can see in the final pics.

This is the finished with clear coat fork, you can start to see how rich and deep the black is...

Look close and you can start to see the sparkle of the metallic silver over the black.

In the sun the metallic silver really makes it shine and adds depth.

Well all in all this was a fun little job, Nich really liked it and hopefully he gets to ride it soon if the new twins don't mind him taking a break from daddyhood.