I silver brazed all the lugs but used nickel-silver at the dropouts. I learned a great deal of what I needed to start by cyber-attending Freddy Parr's On-Line Framebuilding School. He lets any idiot with a computer enroll, but the tuition is cheap... Got what else I needed, knowledge and advice wise from Josh Putnam's wonderful Framebuilder's list, and all the resident masters of the craft there.

Went all european components where I could (except for a US headset). No offense to the Japanese who make lovely stuff of course, but with Italian tubes and lugs...