Our in-house designer Hartmut Weise was musing over what it is that gives the ‘Frankfurt model’ and ‘Wittgenstein’s handle’ their particular appeal. It was their ‘unpretentious look,’ he concluded. He then set out to offer the market an unostentatious design that was at the very least on a par with them. The upshot was the FSB 1108 – a round tube coupled with a mitred grip section with an oval cross-section. Could this be the ‘Brakel model’?