Nur ein Beispiel

Ich könnte es irgendwo als Link einbauen, in einer Meditation über schöne Räder, schöne Rahmen und schicke Sättel.

Wenn der Schüler den Meister übertrifft, zahlt er seine Schuld zurück, geht ein altes japanisches Sprichwort. Es wird gern im traditionellen Kunsthandwerk gebraucht, in den seit tausend Jahren gleichen Künsten der Keramik und des Eisengusses einer Insel, die sich erst im 18. Jhdt. zaghaft der restlichen Welt öffnet.

Richard Sachs ist jemand, der den Rahmenbau (Rennräder) mit einer ähnlichen Haltung betreibt; mit ein Grund, warum nur an die hundert Rahmen im Jahr entstehen. Seit neuestem posted er auf Instagram. Hier ein Beispiel von vielen, das illustriert, warum ein versteckter Link nicht genügt:

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Several Presidential administrations ago when I was an 18 year old in Southeast London working at Witcomb Lightweight Cycles, one of the first hands-on tasks I was shown, and allowed to do, was lug preparation for the staff framebuiders. Profiling a lug was the term used to describe taking an as-delivered part and squaring up the edges using a 6" half-round file. The desired result was that the wall would then be 90 degrees to the pipe and allow for a crisp shoulder. Lugs came in many lengths, shapes, and designs. And all of them needed a maker's hand to improve their lot in life. For so many years, I continued on with what I was shown. Then in the early 1980s, a switch was flicked in what would later become the RS Mind Palace. If making the edge a pure right angle to the pipe was the goal, it left little to no margin of error for the consistency of the filler material used in the joining process. Complete penetration of a lapped joint is always paramount, but one wants the work to also look good. Sloppy or heavy brazing, cleaned up using any means, is dirt floor and taboo. By then, I'd been at the bench for a decade and still never used or owned rifflers or needle files. It occurred to me that 90 degrees was the wrong number. From that point forward I began beveling the lug edges inboard by maybe half of the right angle. The complete shoreline is cut in so that the lug edge veers inward. Careful brazing is one's best safety net against a bad joint as well as a bad looking one. But according to my opinion, angled-in walls assist in keeping filler material buildup to a minimum. #neverfuckingrelent #hauteframebuilding

A post shared by Richard Sachs (@therichardsachs) on Feb 15, 2016 at 11:27am PST