I posted back in December of last year, asking how to do the attachments for the frames on boxed newels. Somebody was kind enough to let me know the back issue# of FH that had boxed newels in it….thanks.
The pics I’m attaching are of a doctor’s house I finished here in Japan. The stairs are Hemlock. I made all the parts out of lumber/posts, the only thing I bought was the LJ Smith hardware for installing the newels, etc. I ran tonnes of railing on my router, felt sorry for the old thing afterwards. I stained and finished it as there were too many tradesmen in the house when I was finished installing, and I didn’t trust them to keep off the treads, etc.
One of the rails going from step 1 to step 3 is not on the same run as the horizontal rail above it going to the wall, that was my biggest mistake of the stairs, as I was trying to avoid hitting the trim on my box newel. It is to code though, height wise.
The little drawers under the stairs fit in between the small stud wall, they are real walnut. The mini-desktop is also real walnut.
At 35 years old, I still have a long way to go, I know, but this was one of my biggest projects to do so far. It was a lot easier when they used to import the stair parts for me……the only reason I started making them was because I refused to use the pre-fab Chinese garbage they had switched to….
Anyway….
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Oops...forgot the pics!
they got Tim Hortons in Japan? .. if I'd put my mug there darn sure I would have managed to knock it off, or is coffee an acceptable walnut stain? .. way to go
I brought that cup back from Tim Horton's in Truro, Nova Scotia. Its as important to me as my tools now!! Can't get Timmy's here.
I was wondering if anyone would notice that! By the way, I knock it over on something once a month, usually when its full!
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