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Around the Shop

Welcome to CKC

Guest reception

Five CKCs

Repaint job

After the stripping tank

Half a Bianchi

How to do this?

Some classic tubes

An interesting Campy product

Work bench area

About to start a frame

Filing a fork end

Finished brazing and cleaning up

Edging a seat lug

Brazing a fork

Checking the fit of the down tube lug

Checking alignment on surface plate

Fastback seatstays

Finished seat cluster

Checking rear dropout spacing

Some frames to paint

Masking for painted head tube

Cutting the tape

Checking the masking

Applying head tube decal

Placing the down tube decal

Lifting the plastic carrier sheet

Clearcoating decals

Hand painting windows

Two frames in the oven

Poster corner

Faded glory

1921 Miami Cycle

The office

The shop after the flood, May 29, 2020

A neighbor's studio

Center stairway of the Ivy Building

June 18

June 18

September 3

Paint shop

Suites to the south

January 2, 2021

Paint shop

First floor, south of shop

First floor, looking north, CKC at top

Second floor, some joists in place where roof burned through

Some reconstruction started on second floor

Front hallway entrance, January 3, 2022

A jumble of stuff

More.........

Paint shop

January 8 Assembling the spray booth

Hanging the paint booth

Temporarily suspended by cables

January 18 Jumble shop

February 6 Finishing the duct work for the spray booth

Paint shop still needs work

The Wall of Color is a forest

Forest of Color is now Wall of Color

World headquarters, reopened

Guest reception

Maintenance department

Frame factory

Office, library, lunch table

Oven and stripping tank

Paint booth