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”Like gunslingers sizing each other up in a Hollywood western, newly acquanted carpenters always want to know how good the other is. Inevitabley, one poses the defining questiong: ‘Can you build stairs?’…
Even in a simple home, a staircase is a complex thing…. Along with framing a roof, building a staircase is one of the most challenging geometrical tasks in building a house… Nowhere in the framing of a house is the possibility for accumulated error greater than in framing stairs.” – From the Taunton Press Book, Building Stairs
... but no pressure for a novice, right?...
More info over at the blog post – some during and after photos of my first attempt as re-doing a staircase, with spindles on both sides, NOTHING underneath, and having the treads wrap on both sides of the risers!
(no new information since the blog post, I just thought this also belonged under my “projects” too.
Here are the “before pix” Now you can really see the whole picture.





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12 comments so far
Bob Babcock
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posted 945 days ago
Nice job Scott. They came out beautiful.
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CharlieM1958
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posted 944 days ago
Great job, Scott. Of course a little 45 degree turn at the bottom would have been nice. ;-)
-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"
jockmike2
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posted 944 days ago
Beautiful set of stairs. Hard job to do. Very nice. jockmike
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scottb
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posted 944 days ago
Good call Charlie… If we were designing the stairs something like that would have been in order. The lolly collumns at the bottom sort of made it hard to do very much. (within code – clearance wise.)
If the post could have come out, I’d have made the stairs a little steeper, they are probably the longest run I’ve seen, potential head trauma to anyone tall (and no room for a nice landing to turn off to either side).
-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/
Dick, & Barb Cain
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posted 944 days ago
Very nice,
The ”Novice”, just turned into an expert,
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scottb
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posted 944 days ago
Thanks Dick…
just added the before pix… now you can see the whole scope of the project
-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/
CharlieM1958
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posted 944 days ago
I was kidding about the turn. There is one like that in my house, and every time I pass it I think “How the heck do you do that?”
-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"
Karson
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posted 944 days ago
I think I like the before best.
You should have left it out.
It was a workshop before. Now it’s a pool room.
How’s a LumberJock to play without a playroom.
Just kidding on liking the before best.
-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †
scottb
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posted 944 days ago
It’s probably in my book Charlie, but much of what’s in there is a little beyond me – at least until I attempt it and get a sense of perspective and what goes where. I mean, we all learn by doing, right?
Funny Karson..
Yeah, how dare we take the customers money and waste our time ruining such a manly space!
One thing you can’t see in these photos is a huge bank of computers, and missing from the “after after” photos is the projection tv and kickin sound system.
-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/
Karson
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posted 944 days ago
I’m glad you took it the way it was intended.
I didn’t want to slamm your great work.
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Obi
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posted 943 days ago
Excellant remodel, Scottie.
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Grumpy
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posted 819 days ago
Nice turnings scott.
-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python