To make a bike, a Seven anyway, you need a rider, a hammer, an anvil, a set of number and letter stamps, a wax pad, and a pair of drop outs. Here at our shop, there is no bike without a rider, and every rider gets their own serial number.
You load a unique code, four numbers, a letter, two more numbers into the stamper, and press it into the wax pad to check that it reads correctly. You pull a pair of raw dropouts from the bin and lay the drive side one on the anvil. You raise the hammer, not too high. Accuracy is important.
Then you pound the stamper with the hammer and that, THAT, is how a bike gets born.
