WOZNOT Forks - Part 3 // paul brodie's shop

[@tomtruesdale6901]

Sign of a outstanding craftsman is their willingness to admit to mistakes. Those forks are looking great since they are coming together. I am very impressed with the tools, fixtures and jigs you have come up with to build your stuff.

[@paulbrodie]

Yes I do make mistakes. I'm told the only guy that make no mistakes is the guy who doesn't do anything! Thanks for commenting...

[@ManekiNico]

12:45 Paul Brodie: “How about that!” A-Team’s Hannibal: “I love it when a plan comes together!” Same energy

[@TL243]

Awesome!

[@poljaar]

8:58 that made me smile

[@gregb3338]

I appreciate your skill and envy your patience. Respect from West Texas

[@ccbproductsmulti-bendaustr3200]

Can certainly see the passion 👌 Cheers Chris

[@paulbrodie]

Thanks Chris. Hope you are doing well...

[@tomthompson7400]

You get great use out of your tools , its clear you have had some of them a long time and have developed a very methodical and efficient way of using them , in both time and effort input to get great results . I was brazing 12mm steel pipes last week as a way of extending length on an engine conversion and was just saying the very same thing about brazing to my friend , its really starting to be a thing of the past in a garage / workshop environment .

[@paulbrodie]

Thanks Tom. Yes, it is true what you say about brazing being a "Thing of the past". I will do my part to keep it alive. Good comments!

[@ThomasDiFrancesco-Schäfer]

Oh Man, it's so nice, to see the passion, you put in the parts you make. And even if you fail, you keep calm and do it better. That's the difference between an artist and an amateur. You are an artist and you create art. 🤙

[@paulbrodie]

Thank you. No sense getting bent out of shape when things don't go to plan. Evaluate, and then come up with Plan B. I wasn't always this patient...

[@michaelrandle4128]

The amount of skills you have to make these frames is just amazing, thank you for sharing these projects, I really look forward to watching them. Regards from across the pond.

[@paulbrodie]

Thank you Michael. I am very happy to share what I have learned...

[@josecarreira8934]

Pretty cool building a set forks 👍

[@leonardarola]

Fantastic work. Thanks for sharing.

[@paulbrodie]

Thank you very much!

[@Krzywoprostydezerter]

Sir. In all this mass production and the increasing pace of our lives, you are like this lonely island in the ocean. Independent and with lush vegetation, where life still flows at the right pace and with the right quality. Kind regards.

[@paulsto6516]

Good show, guys.

[@tongalizia3175]

Measure twice, cut once. …..and you are right Mr Brodie,,,,everybody has an addiction,,, our just happens to be bicycles…great video Mr Mitch….(again)

[@scottcates]

I like these videos.

[@Metal-Possum]

I was eyeing up a very old RST fork crown I saved thinking I'd make some rigid legs for it and fit them to one of my many old frames as a bit of a lazy cruise around bike. The dropouts were always something I wasn't sure about though, the crown already has a significant offset and I didn't want to add more by welding or brazing on dropouts like those found on a BMX fork. Seeing you make your own dropouts had me realise I didn't need to be browsing for some off the shelf item from a frame building company. :) Crust Bikes had some aluminium frames made by Frank The Welder that used a fork like yours. After the first batch they scrapped the fork in favour of a steel one, citing manufacturing costs and other headaches. Maybe CNC for the crown and dropouts and press the whole lot together? It's still a lot more expensive than just sticking some steel tubes together.

[@slideman.]

Thanks! a great learning video - like always....

[@dnc23x]

brilliant.

[@xpndblhero5170]

15:02 - This is why I want to learn how to braze.... I could use that knowledge for building e-bikes. 😁👍🖤

[@glen3509]

Being a machin!st would be so cool🤘🤘

[@workshopninjathe1st]

I live in Portland OR - Joseph Ahearne still makes fillet brazed frames.

[@tiffinthyme5822]

Hello Paul, I just find the brazing- silver solder etc just compulsive viewing, especially as it’s certainly a strength of yours. Today it didn’t go your way, which will help us all appreciate how difficult these things can be and we all benefit from a mistake whom ever makes it. (You could have blamed Mitch as he probably got the lighting wrong, I’m sure that’s what it was!) joking aside I loved the video and looking forward to the next to see it all polished up. Cheers Kevin.

[@goodwaterhikes]

😎✌

[@joell439]

👍😎👍

[@derDresdnerHeide]

Soldering is really neat, but have you ever considered making aluminum dropouts and press them in just like on the top of the tubes? Even brake bosses could be clamped on. Back in the days I had a Pace RC 32 (not shure about the number), they made a really good job by doing it all from aluminum.

[@stephenwilliams926]

Necessity the Mother of invention @ 2:49 😊

[@hisproperty1438]

G'day Paul, Is THAT the way I'm supposed to be using my occy straps? I've been using them to hold my new guitars to my motorcycle rack, to carry them home, in the sketchiest way possible... LOL I've also realised that any oxy-acetelene process isn't being used any more. It took me years to figure out what was wrong with angle grinders & cutting discs - there's no oxy cutting torch. Thanks for a great video Andrew

[@KB_Joys]

Nice work as always Paul. If i could ask why you decided to use caliper mounts, instead of disk brake mount?

[@thomasstone1363]

Paul's making an exact replica of a bike that was made before disc brakes existed (beyond esoteric prototypes).

[@KB_Joys]

@@thomasstone1363 well that certainly makes sense And he probably said it too.. And that would be my fault for always doing ten things at a time, running around my house with a set of Bluetooth headphones, lol Keep up the good work Paul 😊

[@thomasstone1363]

​@@KB_Joyshey man, no worries. I realised the tone of my first comment was a bit off. I would love to see a version of these forks with a mount for a disc brake.

[@maciejzielinski4033]

If you weren't going for the original look, you could use the cinelli SESAMO stem. It has the same clamping style as the fork crown haha

[@cain589]

Will you be at AMA vintage days next weekend in Ohio?

[@stephengent9974]

Using degreaser before hot work might be a good idea.

[@cest7343]

Believe it or not, i'd like to see the process of the error recovery as well. Also, regarding this particular fork design: would You point any property of it over any other particular fork, surely there was any? It seems like quite a solid design to me?

[@glen3509]

Paul, are you using 6061T6 and 7050 aluminum?

[@arjen1327]

Why do you tackweld and then braze so often and not just weld it together?? Greatings from the Netherlands and thanks for all the lessons trough youtube

[@johnwhauserman]

I've brazed since 1975.

[@dansvec5411]

To be human is to create

[@runswithdogs6892]

If anyone wonders why custom bikes are expensive... amazing old school fabricating.

[@alanhowson2270]

What did you make of the pace RC30 forks?

[@JeromeGaston-n2v]

Reynolds or Columbus who is strong tube

[@biggussniffus5537]

Why not just tig everything?