Stair Manufacture
How to Make a Wooden Handrail on Metal Rail: Part 1
Sometimes you have to make a wooden hand rail to fit a metal or cement stair with an existing metallic railing. If you are building a hand rail for a modern metallic…
How to use StairDesigner and ProgeCad for Tangent Handrailing
One of the most difficult parts of stair building is building a solid continuous curved hand rail, and the most tricky question is often how to design the rail and mark it…
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…
Installing a curved stair and handrail
As with all carpentry projects that have to fit into an existing building, installing a stair is the last and final test of the carpenter’s craft. This is the crucial moment that…
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…
How to build curved stairs and handrails
People often ask me how I make curved parts for stairs. These parts have such strange shapes that are far from the usual shapes worked by the average wood worker that they…
How to cut steps and stair risers on winding stairs
Unlike most other woodworking projects, stair building (other than simple straight stairs), often requires cutting and machining weird shaped parts. This can make simple tasks awkward and when they have to be…
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…