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 126
90 STAIRBUILDING. beiag very much reduced by the cutting. The depth of the carriages will depend upon their length and the weight they may have to support. But whatever their depth the outer string must be wide enough to project sufficiently beyond the lower edge to include the thickness of the… … string are dovetailed into the ends of the treads, and then hidden from view by a return-nosing which is moulded to the same section as the pro- jection of the tread beyond the face of the riser, being mitred to it at one end, and returned in itself at the other. Thus, in Fig. 6, a is the face of…
Hand-railing · Stair building
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