So I have long legs proportionally, and I also ride a 2000 hardtail turned drop bar commuter. This doubles down into needing a super short, particularly weird stem. Much like a dirt drop stem, but for 1 1/8 threadless. There’s only 1 on the market that I found like this, it’s from discord components on the east coast. I showed it to @mark_pmw one day and he said it was “butt ugly” and that I should just make my own. So I did! Ive been a machinist 17 years but only braised a handful of times. After some tips from other threads on this forum, and cobbling together a rudimentary jig, here’s the results. It’s not perfect, but I love it, let me know what you think!
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That’s rad! Did you ream the steerer extension after brazing? If anybody has the right tooling to do it it’s gotta be PMW headquarters. 
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Thanks! We do have a reamer here, but I used our manual lathe cause… why not? haha
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I’ve found brazing thick pieces of metal like that stem clamp to a thin tube to be pretty difficult - nicely done!
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Thanks! I did a practice piece with some of the tubing and a hunk of steel scrap first. Yea you really have to focus the heat on the thick piece for it to work.
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Thanks! That was a leftover faceplate from years gone by that had a logo on it for a brand that isn’t around anymore. Donna was kind enough to let me liberate it from the junk drawer and I hammered it mostly so you couldn’t see the logo haha
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You guys have the best scrap pile
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