Fillet brazing? Electro forging? Art? What am I looking at here?

[BartRidesEternal]

Hi guys,

I came across a bike standing in the bicycle shed at my employer. It looks like its professionally made and built.

To be honest, I can't really criticize it, since choices were made, I'm learning in regards to brazing and tastes may vary.

But I do have a few questions in regards to the lug/brazing connections:

Picture above: I see a lug and a tube + seat stays brazed on the lug. The brazing seems rough.

Holes or spots in the brazed connection. The brazed part is not finished with a file.

Columbus tubing.

Again: Spots and thick brazing.

Not saying its bad, it might be a perfect connection, but it seems quite rough for a factory frame. A customer seeing these connections might ask questions.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

I can't zoom in enough to read, but it looks like there's a signature on the down tube across from the Columbus sticker.

 

[Da Gas Man]

I noticed the signature too. Brazing is pretty rough.
Hardly looks like it should be a finished product.

 

[us56456712]

May have used liquid flux instead of gas flux?
Breezer 1 fillet brazing is similar.