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Started by Sparty, December 02, 2015, 07:52:13 PM

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OffGrid973

I picked up the powder coated black hangers for the middle sections and like the pocket hole idea for ends.  Great job again, I will post my hallway once they are up, thank you for the guidance !
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samandothers

Thanks for posting detail on stairs.  My wife and I really like the kitchen bar and bathroom vanity top.  We differ on opinions of the railing for the upper level.  I like what you did.  She is more of a fan of a vertical rail orientation.  She is thinking kids will be climbing the horizontal rails.

I really like all the walnut!

Sparty

Vertical guard rails do offer more safety for small children, but I much prefer horizontal lines.  A great deal of commercial buildings use horizontal bars... And the way codes are now, you know that they would be outlawed if there were many injuries associated with them.  I know that some inspectors do frown on them, though.  I designed the top cap to make it difficult for a small child to climb. A wide board on top makes it much more difficult for a child to crest the top, especially if the board overhangs the pedestrian's side of the rail.  A child would have to lean back and then leverage themselves over the top using a lot of arm strength.  That being said, I am sure that many kids could climb it, or drown in the pond, or get lost in the woods, or.....

samandothers

Sparty
I was not throwing darts at design.  I really like it.  Just shared wife comments as an opposing opinion from mine and why.  I think you thought it out, designed it to be safe and did a fantastic job!

I look forward to more of your photos, thanks for sharing.

Kasba

Absolutely stunning, your grandfather as taught you well. He is looking down on you with a smile and extremely proud. Nice work
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Sparty

No offense taken at all.  We all constantly make decisions as to where we draw the line between being safe and being paranoid.  It can be difficult.  None of us want to be confined by an overly complex building code, but none of us want to see someone get hurt, either.

Sparty

Another walnut counter.  My apologies if the orientation is incorrect...will check it on my laptop later

  

  

  

 

beenthere

Sparty
Try the trick of taking iPhone shots with the volume control down.
'Tis said to keep pics right side up when viewing on computers.

The work looks great, but will get better when all is kosher in the end.
south central Wisconsin
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Sparty

Added a master closet and shower bench this week.  The closet is a cherry frame with stained birch plywood secondary wood.  The shower bench is Ipe.  I also took a little time for a project with one of my sons.  He has been getting into skateboarding.  We researched skateboard deck measurements and I found that there are quite a few young men learning some woodworking skills in order to make their own skateboards/longboards.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

 

samandothers

Did you use pocket holes to join the face frame and to mount it to the birch?

Seems like your son may have a 'woodworking' interest.  I remember my dad cutting a piece of wood and taking a steel wheeled old skate apart and mounting the wheels on the piece of wood to make a skate board for me.  It was fun. You could sit on it (many years ago when I was smaller) ride down the concrete driveway and lean heavy to one side or the other and it would slide around.  Once I started to stand up on it he took it away for fear I'd break my neck! :o ;D

OffGrid973

Finally put up the first test fit of the new railing, love the one finished corner look, need to complete the other end now that I know length.

Thanks again for the idea, just what I needed to get going on finishing these steps. Lacquer finish makes the walnut really pop.

regards,
-chris


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beenthere

south central Wisconsin
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Sparty

Hey... That looks familiar.  Great job.  I find that I like the squared cross section better than round or oval.

Randy88

Nice looking projects, the question I have is how did you get sticker stains on the steps??   


OffGrid973

I like to dry my carpet 1 year per inch, just takes a lot of room in the backyard :)
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WDH

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POSTON WIDEHEAD

Quote from: Randy88 on January 21, 2016, 05:03:34 AM
Nice looking projects, the question I have is how did you get sticker stains on the steps??   

Good material here.  :D :D :D
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Randy88

Poston, the only way I can figure out how to get sticker stains is to plane and mill everything to finished spec's and then sticker the completed steps while waiting for them to be installed, using damp stickers.     Actually I'd never heard or seen sticker stain before until its been mentioned here on the forum, just trying to figure out how it happened.   

Sparty

Here's how you get sticker stain on stairs:
1.  Get ash borers to kill all the ash trees
2. Get the city to give you a whack of beautiful ash logs (as long as you get to them before the cogeneration plant picks them up)
3. Use your good stickers on your walnut and the not-so-dry stickers on the free ash
4. Find a good use for your recovered ash.

The forum and I are the only ones who noticed the stain.  The treads are mounted on angle brackets so I can swap them out easily if I ever want to place an interesting slab in there.

How to get stains in your carpet:
1. Let a goat in your house🙂

Sparty

For randy88, the sticker stain is pretty easy to get if you use green (undried) stickers on fresh sawn light colored woods.  The stain usually is deep enough that it won't plane out.  Interestingly, 6/4 ash in the same pile with the same stickers did not stain.  It must have dried quick enough to avoid the stain that appeared in the 10/4 slabs.  I don't think you could get a similar stain in dried wood that you milled and stacked with wet stickers.  For one, if it is dried to final moisture content, you should be able to dead stack it.  If you did put wet stickers on it, I guess you could get some fungus stains, but I think those would be pretty shallow stains.... never tried it, though.


Randy88

Sparty, only wood workers will ever find things amiss with any wood project, all others will just think its part of the design or is supposed to be there.     

twin_lakes

Sparty, the countertops are incredible.  Can you share the finish you used, especially for the bathroom?
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Sparty

The finish is a bit of an experiment... I finished all of my maple flooring with a water based flooring poly.  I liked the matte finish so I tried it on the countertops.  So far, it has worked well.  I tried a few different combos of finish.  I like to try new finishes on my own furniture before I would sell it to somebody else

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