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Fire And Brimstone: Demon Frameworks’ Manhattan Lug Set

More often than not, the best way to admire a hand-built frame is in the raw state — before it’s painted. That’s certainly true of the frames made by Tom Warmerdam, whose lugs are some of the largest in the business and… entirely made from scratch.

Demon Frameworks Hermes XCr Framset

Demon Frameworks Hermes XCr Framset

With only a handful of manufacturers supplying the frame building industry with lugs, there’s little to tell one unpainted lugged steel frame from another — apart from the quality of finishing. Tom Warmerdam of Southampton’s Demon Frameworks sought to break away from that conformity by creating two of his own lug designs: ‘The Manhattan’ and…

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