I always welcome the christmas season, if for nothing else, it is an opportunity to make some things for which precision and structural integrity are not a pressing concern.   This year the family either got spirally ear rings or, if you happened to have one of my handmade bike frames, a headbadge for your stead, all in stainless steel. I am really exited about the head badges, a friend got me into the hobby shop at MIT to cut them on a water jet and I mounted them up with tiny little M2 screws, they could be a standard feature on all frames in the future.

Gifts gifted and toasts toasted, I am back home and back to work and the dust is beginning to settle from the whirlwind that was my trip to the folks house in beautiful Bucks County, PA.   Being more than a comfortable trip away means I don’t go home much, doing so always makes me wish I got to share more than rushed holidays with the people that brought me into the world.  One day, when I strike it big, I’ll give them all jobs at Budd Bike Works.