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 43
STAIRS WITH STRAIGHT FLIGHTS. 21 line will give the correct position of the riser 2 on Fig. c. This method will give the position of risers in all plans of a similar description. In some there will be found no need to use it. In others it will not only give the position of the risers as indi-… … at the springing lines, and an altogether better looking job may be the result. Figs. E and f show the same method as applied to finding the position of the last riser at landing on to a floor. The similarity of those two Figs, to the first or lower half of Figs, c and d is so manifest that a…
Hand-railing · Stair building
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