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Much better to have that steer tube break in the garage than on a ride…

Black button head Allen bolt, I’ve used them in place of fender rivets and they visually almost disappear

I had a bad experience with Amazon spokes, I’ve had very good results with spokes from pork chop bmx

dude that is amazing! you are an artist

I solved the bent fork issue by remembering I had this Westfield fork in the pile, it’s off a pre-war bike so it’s era correct. The blue is a bit off but it’s close enough for me

Before and afterovernight in the wood bleach bucket, scrubbed with 0000 steel wool, then rubbed with penetrol and I have a frame ready to start fitting parts! I suppose I could have done all this before the build off and technically been within the rules, but where’s the fun in that?

Couple years ago I had a front hub that was a bit too narrow for a replica monark fork, I added an extra lock nut to each side, might be easier to deal with than a stack of washers

2 days in the soap bucket and a few minutes with an old toothbrush and all the grunge is gone, next I mixed up a mild wood bleach mix to see if I can clean up the paint and the chainthen the fun starts!

and it just keeps getting better

I use store bought readers to see small stuff close up, so I wear them a lot working on bikes and I’ve also made the mistake of thinking I had safety glasses on when using the bench grinder or wire wheel

Yes! That looks like it belongs there

Bath time! The bottom of this frame is covered in very thick very old grease/dirt/crud, so I mixed up some dawn dish soap (cuts grease), some car wash soap I found in the cellar cuz why not, half a jug of simple green I had leftover from soaking the bearings, and enough hot water to cover the...

I think my next project will be cleaning the frame, I'll take some pictures of whatever I find. Thanks for the knowledge

The first batch of parts is out of the simple green bucket and scrubbed both bottom bracket cones are junk, added to the list…

The fender, wheel and frame look great together

Yup that one is weird, but good 😊 I’ve got a bare frame now I checked for a serial number and found this cleaned a bit off and found the original color and some numbers next I’m going to clean this dirt off and see what the paint looks like, stay tuned

A looks just like the one I saved and can’t find..

Sprayed some pb blaster on the fastenersand started taking things apart. The steer tube nut didn’t want to cooperate but I wasn’t asking nicelyi win!😁 of course the steer tube is bentand just for fun the crank is tooat least the badge is nice, and I’m gonna try my best to revive the blue color...

A couple years ago when I built my “blue bike” I had 3 frames to choose from when I started. I ended up using the Westfield frame for that bike. Last year I used the second one, but someone had sanded off most of the original paint before they painted it blue do I ended up spraying it gray. I’m...

Put some grips on that and call it done! Great looking bike already, can’t wait to see what you do with it