I just completed five brazilian cherry stairways that went into a real nice home. Three of these were stacked above each other and had raised panel bellies that I had to also make. They were just basic straight stairs..but 92 treads in all.
The wall rails had up easings. over easings..and quarter turns back to the wall.
The top stairway to the fourth level had windows adorning the right side of the stairway. All the stairways are completely walk under with raised panels on each of their bellies.
I used four 18 inch microlams that were 22 feet long.
The treads and risers were all mortised into the wall stringers as well.
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And they painted over the cherry? Good to see your work Stan and that you are still hanging around!
Bake; The stringers. balusters. and risers were poplar and were painted.
Wow! Stan - beautiful work as usual. Those windows must have been expensive with angle cuts and safety glass and all. Bet you got a sore neck doing all that shadow boxing on the stair bellies. Nothing short of of perfect in my book.
Thanks for the pictures
Bob
"Rather be a hammer than a nail"
Thanks Bob:
Classy look......beautiful design.......well-executed. What else could a guy say? Thanks for the pics.
thanks...just followed the architects wishes......I would have changeda few things..but I dont own the home..ha
Stan,
Beautiful! I like the bellies best. I also like how B.C. patinas over time. 92 treads!? How many cuts did you make before you noticed your tooling getting dull?
Ditch
That wood is so hard..I noticed it on the first cut .....ha
Actually though...I had to route the swoop miter returns on many of those steps...and I am still using the router bit.
Stan
The steps look great, just like all the other work you show on here, but whats going on with that 103 Degree stairway, Im waiting for more pics of that one, Its like waiting for the FHB mag.
Doug
Doug: I am going to be starting back on the 103 degree stairway next week. I will post some more pictures then.