Practical Stair Building and Handrailing / By the square section and falling line system.

Chapter 39: Transcriber’s Notes

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About This Book

A practical trade manual that presents step-by-step methods for laying out, cutting, and assembling stairs and handrails. It begins with elementary geometric problems and stretch-outs used to form curves and easings, then explains how to transfer site dimensions onto rods, set out risers, goings, strings, newels, landings and winders, and apply the steel square for accurate profiles. Plates and worked examples illustrate full-size layouts, recommendations for rise-and-run proportions, and a tested square-section and falling-line approach to handrailing, with detailed workshop techniques for cutting, fitting and joining components.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed.

Each “Figure” reference is to a portion of the Plate illustration immediately preceding the text.

The captions of all illustrations included this credit line:

Tho^s. Kell & Son, Lith.

which have been omitted in this eBook.

The right-side edges of several illustrations were missing or illegible.

Page 43: Two occurrences of “sime” were changed to “semi-” to conform with the rest of the book.