Author Topic: The Jedi meets his the Master! Sawzall v Brian Curtis (Read 5061 times)

Gashead · « **on:** January 26, 2014, 04:07 PM »

So I had arranged to meet up with Brian to discuss a project and invited Phil Sawzall who wanted to meet the Bristish Master of BMX frame building.

It was awesome to hear them chat about the techniques of brazing and how the jigs were designed and created to build the frames such as, Curtis, Rickman, MRD and many more makes from back in the day.

We could have chatted for hours, however came away chuffed to meet this humble man, who simply loves rolling up his sleeves and creating beautiful hand built frame sets.

Few pics from our visit this morning......

Curtis - Quad !

Gnarlyscoots · « **Reply #1 on:** January 26, 2014, 04:10 PM »

Retrodan72 · « **Reply #2 on:** January 26, 2014, 04:14 PM »

Excellent stuff Nick.

oldschoolace · « **Reply #3 on:** January 26, 2014, 04:15 PM »

Cool as fook

Makes me want to do that framebuilding course near me even more now. That braising is gorgeous

brummie · « **Reply #4 on:** January 26, 2014, 04:17 PM »

cool
glad you enjoyed cheating

dannyrobo · « **Reply #5 on:** January 26, 2014, 04:17 PM »

loving this

Skratchski · « **Reply #6 on:** January 26, 2014, 04:19 PM »

Awesome stuff, so glad i never got rid of mine. Even though i stopped riding, in 30 years the thought of selling it has never entered my head.
Never seen a Curtis quad neither!!!

In2bmx · « **Reply #7 on:** January 26, 2014, 04:20 PM »

Top stuff .

Gashead · « **Reply #8 on:** January 26, 2014, 04:21 PM »

Quote from: brummie on January 26, 2014, 04:17 PM

cool
glad you enjoyed cheating

Eh

rollin72 · « **Reply #9 on:** January 26, 2014, 04:26 PM »

nice1 looks like you and Phil had a very enjoyable day

midschooljon · « **Reply #10 on:** January 26, 2014, 04:37 PM »

Awesome.

griff · « **Reply #11 on:** January 26, 2014, 04:40 PM »

Fantastic

Thanks for posting

martin46 · « **Reply #12 on:** January 26, 2014, 04:51 PM »

Nice one Nick

pickle · « **Reply #13 on:** January 26, 2014, 04:53 PM »

How flippin cool is that!! Two legends together

What a great afternoon

BMX1973 · « **Reply #14 on:** January 26, 2014, 04:56 PM »

Nice workshop

Jaan · « **Reply #15 on:** January 26, 2014, 04:58 PM »

One of my mates rode for Curtis, i'll see if he still has any interesting memorabilia left.

BADDH · « **Reply #16 on:** January 26, 2014, 05:10 PM »

You know this is a brilliant thread, personally speaking starting out as a CITB Indentured Apprentice Carpenter I am a huge believer in passing down the craft to the generations coming through, keeping alive those techniques and practices and keeping them alive.

Here we have two such masters who have earned top level respect from the community for there truly outstanding ability and knowledge.