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Fitted to you, not to the stock list.

Ines Calder builds 26 steel frames a year in Bristol, each one cut for a single rider. Give your height and every tube on this page changes to match.

Move it. The tubes that change are marked on the drawing below.

Scroll to turn the frame on the bench

Chalk on every tube before the saw.

Each tube is marked from your numbers, then mitred by hand to meet its lug. A joint that sits 1 mm proud is filed again, never filled.

0.2 mmmitre tolerance6tubes cut to you

Brass, run into the lugs at 900°C.

Every joint is heated with a torch until the brass flows into the gap. The lugs spread the load, so the tubes can stay thin and the frame stays lively.

11lugged joints9 weekscut to collection

Now size it to yourself.

Height first, then tubing, enamel and groupset. Save a build, sleep on it, compare it with another tomorrow. Nothing is paid until you hold a bench slot.

Open the drawing

Your frame, drawn to your height.

Ines Calder, framebuilder · frames from £2,450 · 9 weeks from first cut

Setting the frame on the bench in 3D.

Seat tube552 mm
Top tube550 mm
Price£2,450
Ready by9 weeks
Your height01 of 04
178cm
Geometry for 178 cm. Change your height and the tubes that move are marked.
Tube or angleYoursChange
Seat tube552 mm·
Top tube550 mm·
Head tube143 mm·
Down tube592 mm·
Seat stays513 mm·
Chainstays415 mm·
Seat angle74.1°·
Head angle72.7°·
Stack531 mm·
Reach399 mm·
Standover801 mm·

Tubing02 of 04
Enamel03 of 04

Bare steel, clear coatIncluded

Groupset04 of 04
Your build£2,450
  • Frame178 cm rider, cro-mo 4130
  • Build time9 weeks
  • Ready byin 9 weeks
  • Deposit to hold a slot£300

The deposit is refunded in full until the tubes are cut.

One builder, one frame on the bench.

Ines measures you, draws the frame, cuts and brazes every joint and files each lug by hand. Nobody else touches it. That is why there are 26 a year, and why the drawing above starts with your height and not a size chart.

  1. A bare steel frame clamped on a drilled steel bench, its tubes covered in chalk marks and brass lugs at every joint
    01

    Marked in chalk

    Your numbers go onto the bare tubes before anything is cut.

  2. A lugged frame standing in a steel jig on the bench, files and a brass tag beside it
    02

    Brazed in the jig

    The jig holds every angle while the brass runs into the lugs.

  3. The finished bare frame on a workshop stand in front of a wall of hanging tools
    03

    Checked on the table

    Aligned to 0.5 mm, then tagged with your name and sent to enamel.

26Frames a year
11Brazed joints in each
9 wkFirst cut to collection
1Pair of hands

Saved builds

1 on the bench list. Compared with the build you have open now.

Builds stay in this browser. Hold a bench slot when you are sure; the £300 deposit comes back in full until the tubes are cut.

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