{"id":1222,"date":"2012-04-13T20:05:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T01:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2020-09-14T14:02:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T19:02:58","slug":"hand-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/hand-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"Hand Finish"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hand Finish<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Frame Refinish-after<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You can get your custom Seven painted<\/a> just about any way you want. \u00a0Still, for our bare Titanium bikes, we prefer one finish and only one finish, and people wonder why.<\/p>\n

Just to describe what we do, so you have some context: First we take the best US-milled 3-2.5 Titanium tubing available, and we cut, butt, miter and cope it to look like a bike frame. \u00a0Then we load it into a frame jig and weld it together, checking alignment 17 times throughout the process. \u00a0Finally we face and thread the bottom bracket, before passing the complete frame to our finishers.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when the fun starts.<\/p>\n

The finishers take the frame and wheel it out with a buffer. \u00a0The first pass eliminates discoloration around the welds. \u00a0Then they go at it by hand with some Scotchbrite, before adding decals, head badge and any other accessories on the build sheet. Each bike takes roughly two hours to finish. \u00a0It takes a certain amount of patience and strong forearms.<\/p>\n

The result is a clean, lustrous look. We like that it exposes every last piece of craft we\u2019ve put into the frame. \u00a0You can see the quality of the tubing, the quality of the welds. It lays bare our process.<\/p>\n

The reason it\u2019s the only finish we offer is that it\u2019s the only one that will hold up over the lifetime of the bike. If you scratch it, you can Scotchbrite it out and return it to new. Beat it up over time, we can fix it. \u00a0There is no point in the future of one of our frames that we can\u2019t restore its original shine. \u00a0This is not true of any other Titanium finish we\u2019ve seen or experimented with.<\/p>\n

As with everything we do at Seven, \u201cby hand\u201d just seems to yield the best result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Hand Finish You can get your custom Seven painted just about any way you want. \u00a0Still, for our bare Titanium bikes, we prefer one finish and only one finish, and people wonder why. Just to describe what we do, so you have some context: First we take the best US-milled 3-2.5 Titanium tubing available, … Continue reading “Hand Finish”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-featured-option"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11584,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions\/11584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}