Loretta and I have a few things going on this week. The big news is that Loretta is finishing up her Photo Studio. Loretta has spent the last 10 years accumulating stuff to eventually use in her own studio. We were finally able to commit space and now have 700sf of windowless space that adjoins Strong Frames. She will use it both for her own personal artistic projects as well as getting images for the Strong Frames website. We still don’t have all the fancy lighting, softboxes and stuff like that but we’re looking around for good deals and used stuff, hopefully we’ll have lighting setup soon. Currently she makes do bouncing light off of foam core and other little tricks that produce good results but take up a lot of time and space. Personally she is interested in more artistic photography like B&W for which she’s building a dark room and emulsion transfers. By the time she’s done with a lot of her stuff you’d never know it started as a photo. I’ll try to post examples someday.
I’m building Ned’s butted titanium road frame. It’s a full build getting Sram Force with some very nice carbon bars, stem, post and DT wheels.
Lastly, webisode #2 is done. We should have it posted today. I’ll post a link on the Facebook page as soon as it up and of course dedicate a blog post to it as well.
- Blue collar diva with Vanilla Welli’s
- Measuring base trim
- Cutting 2 by 6
- Snow
- Loretta nailing trim boards
- Ready to cut
- Welding Dropouts
- BB cut
- All tubes mitered
- Trial fit
- Rear wheel spacing













So Loretta has built her own studio? Carl, can’t you help just a little????
just kidding… congrats.