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   StanFoster | Oct 01, 2004 01:22pm | #1

   Brisketbean:

   Going to be a killer stairway for sure.....keep sending updates please.....:)

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   DougU | Oct 02, 2004 08:20pm | #2

   BB

   Looks like a fun project. Where you at? Oh yea, keep the pics comming.

   BTW you ever get that e-mail?

   Doug

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   jimblodgett | Oct 02, 2004 10:28pm | #3

   Brisket, man, you are the M A N man.  That looks awesome.  Can't wait to see how it progresses.

   I wouldn't have a clue how to even begin something like that.

   Missed you around here the past few months.  Don't be a stranger, huh?

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   Snort | Oct 02, 2004 11:45pm | #4

   Man, the nice ones just fall in your lap, don't they?<G>

   I hope you can keep posting progress pics. Building on site is my only option, and I'm very interested in how you do it. Are you going to open that inside stringer? Don't worry, we can fix that later!

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   brisketbean | Oct 03, 2004 07:30am | #8

   bb

   the stringers are going to remain closed, they will be plastered on the outside, the treads will be glued up tapered pieces of quarter- sawn  white oak, and the risers will be plywood , laminated with handhammered copper tiles.

   The jobs are just part of the blessings that my Savior showers me with, I get phone calls, mostly from refferals, but some from happenstance. We also do a lot of mundane jobs, we trim two or three tract houses a month and do a lot of maintenace work for clients. 

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   brisketbean | Oct 03, 2004 07:20am | #7

   Doug;

   the only e-mail I got was the one that asked if i got it. Never got the one with any information in it.

   This stairs is in a cylinder that is about 30 feet in diameter, it goes up to about 32 feet to the peak of the dome that we built, and finished with 6"x12" hand hammered copper tiles in a herring bone pattern. The dome is a knock out, but it is too big for me to photograph with my limited ability.  We did a lot of the other trick work on this project, but far from all of it. The house is around 10,000 feet of living area, on an awesome lot , located on saledo creek, about an hour from Austin.

   We are also doing a magic dissapearing christmas tree apparatus, that is a combination of four cylinders,  two domes, and two operaters. (Untested as of yet)

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   Hooker | Oct 03, 2004 04:04am | #5

   Looks great.  Definately keep the pics commin.  I assume it's a spendy house of some kind.  How 'bout details on that.  You doing any of the other work?

   ADH Carpentry & Woodwork

   Quality, Craftsmanship, Detail

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   brisketbean | Oct 03, 2004 08:17am | #9

   hook

   here are a couple other pics, one of thje dome and an outside pic

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   ckeli | Oct 03, 2004 09:32am | #10

   so THATS where all my sawhorses disappeared to!!!!!!

   or is that where you put the horses "out to pasture"

   in anyevent...cool project!

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   butch | Oct 03, 2004 01:05pm | #11

   Man that is awesome!

    keep them pics. coming

   Man, I was wondering were you'd went to as there aren't to many christians here at

   this site, you being one of them.

   Anyhow thanks for the pictures and now all you need is a "how to post" so we (I)

   can figure out how you do all this curved stuff.

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   VaGentinMI | Oct 03, 2004 05:33pm | #15

   as there aren't to many christians here at

   this site,

   I be one, and Piffin is that 4 at least, and there are others.

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   StanFoster | Oct 04, 2004 03:18am | #16

   I am a Christian also......there are more around than you realize.

   :)     

   Stan

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   butch | Oct 04, 2004 04:13am | #18

   Stan, you were one of few here that I "knew" was a christian 

   but I didn't realize that there were that many more around

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   DougU | Oct 04, 2004 04:15am | #19

   I think you might be surprised at how many of us there really are!

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   ckeli | Oct 04, 2004 05:08am | #20

   I go to church every Sunday...does that count?

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   DougU | Oct 04, 2004 05:47am | #21

   I dont know, but I do know who does!

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   ckeli | Oct 04, 2004 06:44am | #22

   eh..your right...just going to church doesn't make one a Christian...how you live your life is what defines you....

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   VaGentinMI | Oct 04, 2004 04:22pm | #23

   eh..your right...just going to church doesn't make one a Christian...how you live your life is what defines you....

   But it is a personal relationship w/ Jesus Christ that makes me a Christian. It gives me a peace, love, joy, patience and a host of other things that make me a happier person, and better citizen. Only place I have found those things is thru that relationship.

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   sammcgee | Nov 11, 2004 12:50am | #33

   by this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love among yourselves.......:o)

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   Snort | Nov 11, 2004 01:23am | #35

   BB, if you keep interrupting the stair work with those barrel vaults, it might take you four more years<G>

   What's the steel? Looks like pocket door studs from here LOL. Is there any bounce. I'm dying to do an open set.

   And, are the risers faced with tile or wood?...& is that vertical trim piece at end of the riser mitered into the tread?

   Man, I love your work, keep those pictures coming...maybe they'll help keep me distracted from this next term<G> Don't worry, we can fix that later!

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    brisketbean | Nov 11, 2004 03:15am | #39

    BB,

    The stair stringers are 12 pieces of 3/8 wacky wood, 18" deep on the plumb line, there is about 10 gallons of tite bond that was used to laminate them together, there is no give, bounce or deflection that can be neasured. The risers are hand hammered copper tiles laminated to 3/4" plywood, the treades are quartersawn white oak, and the studs that furr the bottom of the stairs are 25 gauge metal. Two reasons for the metal studs, they add no significant weight to the stairs, and they help facilitate the plane swap from side to side. 

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    butch | Oct 04, 2004 04:10am | #17

    I hope you didn't take my statement  to mean there weren't "any", just not

    "many" christians here.

    But thanks for sharing

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   Hooker | Oct 03, 2004 03:45pm | #12

   Nice lookin' house.  Is that the sawhorse graveyard of Texas?  Think maybe I'll come down and pay respects to fallen ones!ADH Carpentry & Woodwork

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   brisketbean | Oct 03, 2004 03:56pm | #13

   plugs like those only need a couple more cuts to be turned into something usefull, like shop heat. It has always amazed me , the kind of junk that people will work off of, they will buy a five hundred dollar saw , and then work off of crappy sawplugs.

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   finishcarp | Oct 03, 2004 04:50pm | #14

   Nice........... keep the pix comin'...............First we get good- then we get fast !

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   donpapenburg | Oct 03, 2004 04:05am | #6

    That looks  cool ,with a kapital K .  Do you always get these great jobs  or do you have to do hohum jobs once in a while?

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   DougU | Oct 27, 2004 06:27am | #24

   Hey, you must have some follow up pictures by now!

   Doug

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   xMikeSmith | Oct 27, 2004 07:30am | #25

   bb..... still kickin asz with your work....

   good to see your smiling faceMike Smith   Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore

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   brisketbean | Nov 10, 2004 11:23pm | #26

   WELL mIKE;

   LOOKS LIKE FOUR MORE YEARS OF THE SAME THING. 

   some progress in central texas

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   GoldenWreckedAngle | Nov 10, 2004 11:32pm | #28

   That is a very nice looking stair case, but do you really think it's going to take four more years to finish it?

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   brisketbean | Nov 10, 2004 11:44pm | #30

   i am pretty slow. refering to recent election for mike

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   xMikeSmith | Nov 11, 2004 01:40am | #37

   bb... is that a mexican tile vaulted ceiling ?

   and how come you furred the bottom of the stairs with metal stud.. is that what you usually use?Mike Smith   Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore

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   brisketbean | Nov 11, 2004 03:03am | #38

   which ceiling Mike?  the dome is hand hammered copper from deep down in mexico, the barrels are sliced brick from dallas.

   for the next term, more of the same, we have a tax and spend republican liberal instead of a tax and spend democrat liberal- just hold on to your wallet.

   as per the metal studs on the bottom of the stairs, you know how the planes swap from side to side, the metal studs do the same,  so the transition is eased from one striger to the other.

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   gzajac | Nov 11, 2004 10:08am | #40

   Great work as usual- inspiring- Wish I had thought about using the  metal studs under the stairs-would have made my job less complicated. How do you attach the brick to the ceiling? Is this something you do yourself?

   Thanks for the new ideas.

   Greg in cold Connecticut.

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   brisketbean | Mar 06, 2005 07:15pm | #41

   lick um and stick um with mastic, just like wall tile, butt them tight and they form an arch. no danger of falling out. 

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   pegkip | Mar 09, 2005 10:49pm | #42

   Hi BB:

   Did you design/engineer these stairs? They look great!

   Getting ready to build a Texas-Tuscan on Hwy 71 overlooking the Pedernales. Nowhere near 10,000 sq ft, though!

   Do you do a more contemporary look in stairs say metal risers, mesquite treads, cabling in the handrails an open look where you see right through...my jargon may be off. Let me know if you need me to find you a photo of something like it. Keeping an open mind, however if you'd recommend a differnet direction.

   That shaved brick from Dallas is cool stuff!

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   brisketbean | Mar 10, 2005 07:58am | #43

   pegkip;

    

   Yes I did design and engineer the stairs from a point, the room. and the landing were given, along with the four radius's. I calculated the rise and run, how the stairs would land, the turn out, and the sizes for the stringers and treads. The stairs should have handrails by now, they were done by others, they were to be a combination of brass and wrought iron and should lend a rather contemporary look to the staircase.

   We do a lot of unique projects, ceilings and round work is a specialty that we do the most of, domes, groin vaults and such.

   You are close to that stair job, it is outside of salado. The stairs is nice, but the dome we did above it is a knock-out, I just can't get a good photo of it, I am a rather poor photographer, to say the least.

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   xMikeSmith | Nov 11, 2004 01:37am | #36

   i don't think so, BB.. i don't think you've peaked yet..

    your work just keeps getting better and better..

   as for the national scene... nah... nothing ever remains the same..it's ll be different... maybe different better, or different worse

   we gotta get together at one of these fests.. you'd have a blastMike Smith   Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore

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   brisketbean | Nov 10, 2004 11:28pm | #27

   some pics

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   brisketbean | Nov 10, 2004 11:36pm | #29

   some more

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   butch | Nov 10, 2004 11:51pm | #31

   Looks great mr. bean

   keep em coming as you finish up or show some finished shots

   when it's all said and done

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   rez | Nov 11, 2004 12:10am | #32

   For the dialups... 

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   DougU | Nov 11, 2004 01:20am | #34

   BB

   Thanks for posting the updates, make sure you keep them coming.

   Looks great!

   What's that on the ceilings?

   Doug