Stair Design

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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How to build curved stairs and handrails

People often ask me how I make curved parts for stairs. These parts have such strange shapes that are far from the usual shapes worked by the average wood worker that they…

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