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   Paradiscic | Mar 21, 2004 05:17am | #1

   Yeah.... sky blue with clouds and a couple gyro thingies.... will help you feel better when you are stuck in there working to support your hobby.

   
   

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   Edited 3/21/2004 8:07 am ET by Paradiscic

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   Bluegillman | Apr 08, 2004 07:02am | #2

   So you made a mock up wall that you could build the stairs as it is in the customer's house? Pretty neat idea! Looks like you are doing three stairs? Can't wait to watch it grow in steps by steps!  I seems to have a little hard time to make something in my little shop and picture it in my head how it would fit over there. I like to do trail and fit before final glueing. Ralph

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   StanFoster | Apr 08, 2004 12:58pm | #3

   Blue:  I basically reproduce the customers foyer in my shop. Its a method that with careful measuring...has never failed me yet. 

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   Bluegillman | Apr 09, 2004 04:37am | #5

   The same way I do at my job, as I'm a machinist and when a customer sends the blueprints and askes me to make that this etc. I have to make it as the prints says then I have to go to their place and set it up on to their machines and make sure it moves to what they wanted. Fun stuff! I don't do those all the time now back then it was every few months. I was limit to doing those big things on a small milling table and have to move the part around to do the next side by using steel dowel pins. Some times use the hand drill with machined made fixtures for lining up holes to drill and tap on the ends of those long rolling bed ways. I never liked their rush orders and wanting them by tomorrow morning, which made me work 15 hours in one day to get it done.

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   JerBear | Apr 08, 2004 01:47pm | #4

   If you have the room, it's the best way to make spiral stairs like that.