http://www.singletrackworld.com/2010/08/interview-will-from-hammoon-cycles/
http://www.hammoon.com/

Cool stuff. Gets me juices going.
Can we have a list of other small uk-based bike makers…

Just read that too. Perhaps I'm being nieve, but in the age of a £150 hand-made-in-China-by-robots On-One frames, ~£800 for a steel frame (albeit probably custom geom and hand-made-in-a-shed-by-a-human-who-speaks-English) seemed a touch pricey.

also think they are trying to run before they can walk

like the jigs tho, much better than the box section steel stuff a certain other bike company use 😕 (when I was there yrs ago anyway)

£800 for a steel frame (albeit probably custom geom and hand-made-in-a-shed-by-a-human-who-speaks-English) seemed a touch pricey.

Seems a bargain to me for one and a half weeks work + materials. "So – start to finish one and half weeks, specifying and ordering parts can take longer."

Yes – it's a fair point that effectively you are buying a one-off, so economies of scale of large batch production to a single design don't apply, so most fo the cost is man-time/skill/expertise.

I think the point I was going for was that, for most people, if you can find a frame that ticks most of your requirements and fits pretty well for 1/4 of the cost you'll go for that, rather than something that will be made to measure to your exact requirements for alot more. I guess there must be space for both in the market though, esp at the procution rate (30/40 a year?) that Hammoon are talking about.

for most people, if you can find a frame that ticks most of your requirements and fits pretty well for 1/4 of the cost you'll go for that, rather than something that will be made to measure to your exact requirements for alot more.

indeed.

A suit – http://direct.asda.com/george/men-s-clothing/suits/brussels-linen-mix-formal-suit/SET378,default,pd.html

A suit – http://www.manning-and-manning.com/

Brant – LOL 😉 Yep – point made – the suit analogy is a good one.

They look like really nicely made frames. I hope he does well.

Indeed – seems cheap.
The 'home made' jigs look very well done.
J.

Very cheap. Think about it, even if he upped his work rate to a frame a week, gave himself two weeks a year off, he would *gross* £40k.