A practical treatise on handrailing : showing new and simple methods for finding the pitch of the plank, drawing the moulds, bevelling, jointing-up, and squaring the wreath (1890)
Collings, George · London : Crosby Lockwood and Son · leaf 122
86 STA1RBUILDIN(?. will be sufficiently obvious from an examination of the figure without a detailed description. A better-looking easing, however, than can be had by making it consist of arcs of circles, as in the above, may usually be obtained by sketching it freehand to suit the eye, and the bad… … Fig 3. at about half the rise above and parallel to the going a b. The curved parts may then be described by finding their centre as at g, or the angle may be eased ofi" to suit the eye. The upper edges of the wall-strings at top and bottom of the stairs, and at the landings and winders, are…
Hand-railing · Stair building
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