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Spiral Staircase Part 3

Railings and Final Assembly Here's the cutout for the upper floor, quick specs the long flat sides are 2 3/4" long, just enough to allow the step to clear the hole. Here's a shot of the hole, ours looks a little bit different. We had a previous hole for another staircase that just didn't fly, but it worked out in the end :angry: . I'm sure there are many ways and out of many things to make a handrail, since we went with the old iron look we are using an ol

Annette

Annette

Spiral Staircase Part 2

Now it's time to start assembling the staircase. As always in assembling do a dry fit of all pieces before gluing, it helps to give you a better idea what you're doing so no 'OOPS' happens. :angry: To start, get a step, dowel, bead, 5/64" drill bit and glue. Take the bead and run the drill bit through to clean out any debris, take the dowel and put some glue on it about 1/2" up from the end, slide the bead on until 1/16" of the dowel is sticking out. Now,

Annette

Annette

Spiral Staricase Part 1

Hi all, I finally got Greg (my DH) to write down how to start making the spiral staircase that was based on the german instructions. The things you will need: 3/32" drill bit 5/64" drill bit Fosters Mini Dowels Jewelry Craft Wood Beads Craft Glue (he used Arleene's) Carpet Tape X-acto knife and a few extra blades 1/16" x 12 x 3 piece of basswood 12" ruler Once you have all the items listed above goto your hous

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Annette

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