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1. 
   ToolFreakBlue | Oct 31, 2007 08:08pm | #1

   the ballusters are not consistantly located on the treads?
   TFB (Bill)

   Edit - Or is one missing on the top tread?

   
   

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   Edited 10/31/2007 1:13 pm by ToolFreakBlue

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   McDesign | Oct 31, 2007 08:16pm | #2

   Nope!  It's a good thing, I think, but I don't really know.

   Forrest

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   BillBrennen | Oct 31, 2007 08:31pm | #5

   I see 2 things. The knots are in the middle of the treads where the wear happens. The chair rail dies into the skirtboard. Any milkbones?Bill

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   ToolFreakBlue | Oct 31, 2007 08:27pm | #3

   All right, how 'bout;

   The boards are mostly from the same log and the knots follow the traffic pattern up the stairs?

   TFB (Bill)
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   McDesign | Oct 31, 2007 08:30pm | #4

   Ummm - close?

   F

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   ToolFreakBlue | Oct 31, 2007 08:57pm | #7

   "Ummm - close?"then, follow the traffic pattern down the stairs?
   TFB (Bill)

1. 
   northeastvt | Oct 31, 2007 09:03pm | #8

    Nobody liked to use the handrail? :)

   northeastvt

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   JDRHI | Oct 31, 2007 09:08pm | #9

   Your actually standing at the bottom of the stairs looking up?

   They used treads for risers?

   J. D. ReynoldsHome Improvements

    

    

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   rez | Oct 31, 2007 08:33pm | #6

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   Hey, is that a visual alteration from the heights of the photo or do those balusters narrow toward the tread incision point?

    

4. 
   JHOLE | Oct 31, 2007 09:24pm | #10

   The treads are getting wider asthey go down?

   Remodeling Contractor just on the other side of the Glass City

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   McDesign | Oct 31, 2007 11:10pm | #11

   Several guessed it, so milk-bones to all! 

   Even though they're not all apparent, there is a knot pretty much in the center of every tread, even the winders behind me.

   This house was built by the surveyor who laid out our town in 1839, so you know it's on the highest point of land, and it's pretty well built.I'm not sure why it was done; ant-wear seems obvious to me, but maybe someone really knows? 

   A nearby house of the same vintage has two beautiful parlor mantels with a life-sized carved cherub centered over each fire box; upon refinishing it was noted that the growth rings radiate exactly out from the little guy's nose.

   Same guy?  A centrist?

   Forrest

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   Spalted | Oct 31, 2007 11:23pm | #12

   I like how the newel is one tread up and the skirtboard dies into that first tread, even though that first tread is not longer.

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   northeastvt | Nov 01, 2007 02:11am | #13

    McDesign,

    It must have been a young couple/ kid's living there at one point, it looks like all the wear is next to the wall(no need for hand rail). I bet that when he installed them they were awesome, the grain pattern coming out from the knot's etc . 

     Northeastvt

    

    

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   stevent1 | Nov 01, 2007 02:22am | #14

   Forrest,

   I noticed some treads have three balusters and some two. What's up with that?

    

   Chuck Slive, work, build, ...better with wood

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   McDesign | Nov 01, 2007 03:01am | #15

   Who knows- no code them, not even a town!

   Forrest

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   Hackinatit | Nov 01, 2007 05:09am | #16

   the ballisters are evenly spaced on the rail and fall wherever on the treads...

   some have two and some three.

   Maybe?

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