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   AitchKay | Dec 23, 2008 06:07am | #1

   Your way is easier, but his way is doable.

   If the flats of both moldings are equal in width at the nosing miter line, it's a piece of cake -- a simple miter cut through both pieces. But if one of the two flats is wider than the other, do this:

   Strike a line on the wall along the stringer's flat/molding juncture, as if you had ripped the molded edge off, and traced the flat stock line onto the wall.

   Do the same for the landing base, making sure that both lines intersect.

   Connect the intersection of these two flat-stock lines with the point where a straightedge held tight to the nosings intersects with the bottom of the landing base.

   That's how you miter two dissimilar widths of flat stock.

   Then bisect the angle where the top of these two flats meet (the actual pitch of the stairs) to find the perfect miter angle for the molded top sections. This is a simple miter for the molded sections of the two pieces.

   One of these two pieces can be cleanly cut to a point with two different settings on the chop saw, but the other will have to have a V-shaped, angled notch cut into it, with its inside corner filed or sanded to fit.

   Make your boss take the time to watch you draw out/ mock up how these cuts must be made, and then make him sign off on either paying you extra to do it his way, or doing it your way, for less.

   Both solutions are just fine -- they'll both look great -- but it's his problem, and his call. Make him own it.
   Aitchkay

   Aitchkay

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   sawtater | Dec 24, 2008 03:23am | #2

   thanks