Design a Helitical Stair with StairDesigner and ProgeCad
I often receive emails asking how to design continuous curved stairs in StairDesigner. This week Alain Marin of Escalier Bois has asked me how to set up a helical stair with a…
Polyboard: a powerful loft conversion design tool
In this short article and video I show how to design a piece of furniture to fit under a slanting roof truss. The cabinet acts as a separation between two rooms. Another…
Getting Started with Polyboard
Using Polyboard to design furniture is fast, easy and efficient. In the short video below, we give an overview of Polyboard and demonstrate how you can build a complex furniture project in…
How to model outside volumes with Polyboard
To go a little further into how design with Polyboard I’m going to set up some videos to show more in detail some of Polyboard’s unique features that will help you design…
Another Curved Stair Project
Here’s an email from Laurence a cabinet maker based in the south west of France. He has just made his first stair with a curved central cut string using my horizontal laminated…
Boxed string in 3 parts
At times it’s impossible to assemble a stair and raise or lower it into the stair well. When the stair strings are boxed and the steps and risers recessed into the string…
Traditional Wreathed Stair Using High and Low Tech
I have already published a few photos of the stairs made by Rick and Andy Suckely. Rick has recently sent me the photos of the finished stair so I thought I’d write…
Designing a Straight Central Cut Stringer Staircase
Continuous curved central cut strings give a very elegant design for modern stairs, but the curved stringer and handrails can be long and expensive to manufacture. A compromise is to make the…
Building a form for a concrete stair with StairDesigner
StairDesigner is very useful for building wood and metal stairs. It can also be very handy for setting out the form work when building a cement stair. As an example here’s an…
How to Build a Wreathed Handrail on a Metallic Rail: Part 3
Here is the last article in the series for building a curved wreathed handrail on an irregular metallic rail. In my last article in this series I showed how to adjust the…