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wroughtn_harv
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Jim, you asked about the handrail. The client got one heckuva deal at King supply on some half inch hammered tubing pickets.
We'd laid out some hammered three quarter inch and half inch pickets with railing material on the floor. We agreed the thinner pickets looked better with the largeness of the cedar material. He went down to King supply and made out like a bandit. (a little over a buck a picket is stealing steel)
Attached is a picture of the finished and painted steel with the mortises for the runners of the upper stairs.
What I did was make a jig for cutting the mortises. Just a piece of four inch by quarter with a hole that enabled the plasma tip to cut the perfect hole. It was welded to another piece of plate at the right angle for the holes.
The thing to remember when attempting to space things evenly is that center to is exactly the same measurement as inside to inside or outside or outside. I knew I wanted a seven and a half inch rise so all I had to do was lay out lines on the steel for the runner and put the top of the jig on that line. At that point it was point and shoot.
We'd laid out some hammered three quarter inch and half inch pickets with railing material on the floor. We agreed the thinner pickets looked better with the largeness of the cedar material. He went down to King supply and made out like a bandit. (a little over a buck a picket is stealing steel)
Attached is a picture of the finished and painted steel with the mortises for the runners of the upper stairs.
What I did was make a jig for cutting the mortises. Just a piece of four inch by quarter with a hole that enabled the plasma tip to cut the perfect hole. It was welded to another piece of plate at the right angle for the holes.
The thing to remember when attempting to space things evenly is that center to is exactly the same measurement as inside to inside or outside or outside. I knew I wanted a seven and a half inch rise so all I had to do was lay out lines on the steel for the runner and put the top of the jig on that line. At that point it was point and shoot.