Production, Paint and More

Things have been progressing a little slowly over the past few weeks, as I’ve had a lot of wedding commitments that have required attention. I hope to be back at full production rates later this week. If you’re at all curious about what’s been transpiring, I offer you this short list:

1. Wedding planning, which requires entire weekends out-of-town.
2. Wedding planning, which occupies entire evenings.
3. Dental visit last week, which requires follow-up this week.
4. Weekend-long social engagement with family.
5. Etc.

So there you have it.

On the actual business-side of the Great Life Equation™, there is good and bad.

Good: I have a general agreement with Skaaly, the guy who does my waterjet work, to build him a custom track frame (for real velodrome use). We’ve discussed the details — stylistic details, geometry, paint, and all that good stuff, and I’ve given him a quote. At this point, I am just waiting on a deposit from him before I can order the tubing and make with the building. His design is going to be fairly similar to the pursuit frame I am building for myself, so I will probably build the two concurrently.

Bad: I had been planning on using local painter Dominick Austin for the work on the commuter frame. I knew about his longer lead times and so on, but I think that based on this article in the Star Tribune that I’ll be holding off. I hope that Dominick can rectify the situation to the satisfaction of the client and to the people that are castigating him. As for me, I’ll be watching his work and his progress as a businessman, and hope that there’s the possibility of doing work with him in the future. For the time being, however, I will be going elsewhere.

So that, kids, is where things currently stand.