Balustrade Day

I set these new stairs as part of a big remodel I’ve been working on the past several months and today I finished up the balustrade.

The first tread is cut open to accept the starting newel and the newel is notched.





Lining up the angle for the post to post fastening system Coffman uses.



Cutting the handrail.




Drilling the holes to accept the dowels on the bottom of the balusters.



Installing the square balusters into the plowed handrail.



All done.

Very Nice.
Mac

Nicely done. True craftsmanship.

Mike Rowe would be proud.

You do fine work.

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Nice professional job.

I'm impressed. Jealous but, impressed. Very nice.

Great Craftsmanship

Awesome work. I enjoy seeing that sort of artwork.

Too funny
I have the same thing going up my stairs and want to tear it out and modernize

Look good

those are not metric.

Nearly identical Vinke!

No they're not. Ten inch treads with seven inch risers.

Nice work

Nice job.

Looks really nice!

Nicely done! Sure wish I had the talent for that.

Fine piece of work!

You must set a mean lean killing machine of a coyote trap! Angle is key and you are an artisan!

Blessings,
Mark

Nice, I always hated those, because if the bottom, of what I call the spindle, isn’t cut true you’ll see a little gap and it bugs me.

Baluster and spindle are interchangeable, pretty much the same thing.

The ends were cut square, no problem with gaps there but, as I'm sure you know, you have to be careful not to fit the mitered end into the plow too tight or you lift the previous one up a little causing a gap. I shoot a finish nail through the top of the baluster into the rail before I put the fillets in so the bottom of the last installed baluster can lift if I get lazy and knock a too long one plumb instead of going back out to the saw and trimming a hair off.

Some of these balusters had the dowels drilled in off center. I barely made the four-inch-spacing rule using two per tread and those couple of off-center dowels put me at 4 1/8-4 3/16" between balusters. I'm hoping the inspector doesn't notice...

You never know what your capable of until you try. That is excellent craftsmanship that comes from years of experience. Very nice job Lugnut.

Cool work, real craftsmanship!

That looks great Lug.

Awesome work