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Kellner Millwork is a 3 generation joinery shop specialising in stair building in Pittsburg, the company is run by Ron D’Alessandro.<\/p>\n

Ron and his team makes some beautiful high and medium end stairs that you can see on his web site by clicking the link below:<\/p>\n

Kellner Stair & Rail<\/a><\/p>\n

Last January I was contacted by Ron asking if Stair Designer could help him in his stair designs. He gave me a couple of stairs to design to put the software through it’s paces.<\/p>\n

One was a simple three quarter turn with winders, a standard stair for StairDesigner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the StairDesigner model:<\/p>\n

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The other stair was more complex.<\/p>\n

This stair that had to wind it self around an octagonal glass lift with a curved cut string and fit into an octagonal shaped stair well.<\/p>\n

Note that the 2 octagons were no where near parallel.<\/p>\n

Here’s a rendered image of the stair I made using the Stair Designer 3D model and Progecad for Ron to show the project to his customers.<\/p>\n

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This stair was in fact 2 stairs one over the other and was more of a challenge for me to design, especially that it was all done in inches and fractions not something I used to doing.<\/p>\n

Ron sent me the stair well drafted up using Turbo cad and I calculated the stair position and parameters using his drawing.<\/p>\n

Here’s the first drawing made up in ProgeCad.<\/p>\n

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This initial draft is used to get the shape of the stair well and the first and last steps of the stair.<\/p>\n

With these elements fixed, I dimension of all the necessary sizes that will give the stairs parameters in Stair Designer.<\/p>\n

Here’s the Stair Designer 3d model:<\/p>\n

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To build the curved string I suggested Ron use the horizontal laminates technique that I explain In this article:<\/p>\n

How to make curved stairs with a central cut string<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are a few photos sent by Ron to show how it went:<\/p>\n

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Ron used the DXF files from ProgeCad to run his CNC and cut out the horizontal laminates and drill the dowel holes that align them while gluing up.<\/p>\n

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These photos show the laminates off the machine and ready to be glued up to make the the curved stringer<\/p>\n

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Dowels are inserted to keep them aligned and the laminates are glued up in packets equal to the rise of each tread.<\/p>\n

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In these photos Ron has printed out a full size plan of the curved string to assist in assembling the different laminated packets to make up the entire stringer.<\/p>\n

The laminates are assembled using a laser plumb line to make sure they align perfectly with the full size plan view.<\/p>\n

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Once assembled the horizontal lamainates are “veneered” with a 1\/8th inch outer laminate.<\/p>\n

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Ron has glued thin battens to the underside of the string to finish off the lower helicoidal surface.<\/p>\n

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The string and the stair stair are temporarly installed into the stair well while waiting for the glass lift.<\/p>\n

Ron say\u2019s that the lift should be installed next week and the I\u2019ll write another article to show you the final stair as soon possible.<\/p>\n

Hope this has been interesting for you.<\/p>\n

Thanks again to Ron for sharing this great project with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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