Case Studies

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…

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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…

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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…

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Amateurs build great stairs

Name: Damian Clarke Comments: I am very happy with the service, Stairs are a small part off what I do, so will not use the system a lot. I would recommend your…

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Traditional stair builder uses modern techniques to build a curved cut string

Kellner Millwork is a 3 generation joinery shop specialising in stair building in Pittsburg, the company is run by Ron D’Alessandro. Ron and his team makes some beautiful high and medium end…

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Farm house stair building

Following last week’s article on curved strings and handrail here’s a short example of a wreathed string built with laminates, that I’m actually building in the workshop. This stair is being built…

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Amateur builds a curved central cut string

M. Paul-Hervé Paquet has just sent me these photos to show the curved stair he has just build using the laminated layers  technique that I explained in my Building a curved central…

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