Getting there...

It looks like a bike!

Plug-type dropouts need a bit of love to smoothly transition to the tube. The goal is to make it look like one piece when its painted.

I admit that I gulp a few times before drilling big holes in a frame that's almost done. I've never had any issues, but it does feel odd.

One good thing though...brazed in steel bosses not only hold the bottle cages, but they really reinforce the tube near the hole. Although they look pretty much the same, aluminum frames have riveted bosses which don't add much (if any) strength. Its highly unlikely that a steel or an aluminum frame would ever fail in the middle of the tube, but if it did, the boss location is the most likely.