Originally Posted by vaxn8r (Post 432138)

I'M A FILET LOVER!

I have another theory to add to your list. Beaver tails have a sort of lugless appearance. It's who you are, deep down.

Originally Posted by David Kirk (Post 1188839)

Yes - unfortunately that can happen. I've even seen tig welded bikes 'converted' to fillets with more than a bit of filler.

I owned a fillet brazed MTB many many years ago that was built by one the the masters and it had fillet brazed 'bullmoose' style bars. I crashed it hard once - hard enough to bend the bars badly - and the fillets came off! Nice smooth bondo fillets lay in the mud and rough nasty ones were left showing.

I suppose on one hand it matters little - they look good and will probably stay together. But...........it's still not right and I suppose it's fraud or theft in some way. If one expects that the fillets are well done under the paint but they aren't then the buyer got the short end of the stick. This is why I always send raw photos to the customer so they can see what is under there before it heads off to paint and any good builder should be proud to do so.

Buyer beware I guess.

Dave