How to Make a Wooden Handrail on Metal Rail: Part 1
Sometimes you have to make a wooden hand rail to fit a metal or cement stair with an existing metallic railing. If you are building a hand rail for a modern metallic…
How to use StairDesigner and ProgeCad for Tangent Handrailing
One of the most difficult parts of stair building is building a solid continuous curved hand rail, and the most tricky question is often how to design the rail and mark it…
Traditional stair builder uses modern techniques to build a curved cut string
Kellner Millwork is a 3 generation joinery shop specialising in stair building in Pittsburg, the company is run by Ron D’Alessandro. Ron and his team makes some beautiful high and medium end…
Announcing the Launch of an Amazing New Woodwork Community
Hi Everyone! For those of you who subscribe to my newsletter, you’ll know I’ve been talking about some great new projects I’m working on, and I’ve got major news about one of…
Enhancing StairDesigner models with ProgeCad
Here’s the third video in my using Progecad with StairDesigner series. StairDesigner does a very good job of calculating and technically drawing the stair and you get all parts and working documents…
Free stair design tool and download
Serge is a subscriber to our email list and had no previous experience in stair building. He has built himself a stair using only StairDesigner, our free stair design tool, and resources…
How to Design Curved Strings and Handrails using StairDesigner and Progecad 3D
Some people have been asking me how to build solid curved parts using StairDesigner. To answer I have made a short video that shows how to use StairDesigner DXF files and a…
How to build a 3D stair project with StairDesigner and ProgeCAD
This is a short video to show how I use the StairDesigner DXF export functions to use Progecad or Autocad to build a complete 3D project with the rendering tools supplied in…
Installing a curved stair and handrail
As with all carpentry projects that have to fit into an existing building, installing a stair is the last and final test of the carpenter’s craft. This is the crucial moment that…
Farm house stair building
Following last week’s article on curved strings and handrail here’s a short example of a wreathed string built with laminates, that I’m actually building in the workshop. This stair is being built…