I really like to draw and build winder staircases. Actually, I stopped building them 'cause I got old, but I still draw them in plans for clients, probably in a third of the jobs I do.
Here is a page from a plan I did for one, one I actually built myself. Since I had modeled it in 3D, I was able to aid myself in the build by having a guy with a continuous feed plotter make me full size scale prints of the carriages and wall skirts, which I glued to the LSL 2x14s and 2x12s, and 1x stock, ensuring good accurate marking for cutting parts. With the under-skeleton in place, plus the skirts at walls and the balustrade inside, the rest was all just template jigs done with sticks and hotmelt glue to make all the treads and risers and build it.
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But let's assume you get the job to do the stairs, and the client wants them built per the plans, except that you have no access to the 3D digital files. All you have is the paper print shown here. Are you prepared to do it? Except for the space under the high end at plan right, the under-staircase space is all dead. You can box-platform it or do it the weird carriage way shown, nobody cares what's under. Can you do it?
If you can, outline your method.
Here is a page from a plan I did for one, one I actually built myself. Since I had modeled it in 3D, I was able to aid myself in the build by having a guy with a continuous feed plotter make me full size scale prints of the carriages and wall skirts, which I glued to the LSL 2x14s and 2x12s, and 1x stock, ensuring good accurate marking for cutting parts. With the under-skeleton in place, plus the skirts at walls and the balustrade inside, the rest was all just template jigs done with sticks and hotmelt glue to make all the treads and risers and build it.
But let's assume you get the job to do the stairs, and the client wants them built per the plans, except that you have no access to the 3D digital files. All you have is the paper print shown here. Are you prepared to do it? Except for the space under the high end at plan right, the under-staircase space is all dead. You can box-platform it or do it the weird carriage way shown, nobody cares what's under. Can you do it?
If you can, outline your method.
