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Mike G wrote:..........or mock it up with scrap. Guess the angle, offer it up and adjust, and adjust again, and finally run a saw through the resulting gap until you have a perfect joint. Transfer this to your proper handrail, which again, you leave overlong and adjust the joint before sorting out the free ends. Those calculators are all well and good if your walls are straight.......best of luck with that!!
Malc2098 wrote:Do you mean like this?
I stuck a load of masking tape lightly to the wall and used that to draw all vertical attempts, and another load on the return floor to draw the horizontal ones.
The aged FIL likes the half turn in the corner, says his hand goes naturally round it.
But, it was mostly trial and error to get anywhere near right.
Malc2098 wrote:WS
Do your stairs have sides like mine in the photo? Could you use the sides and scribe them up to the height of the rail to get some of your angles?
100mm masking tape came in very useful for that!
Malc2098 wrote:Stroke of genius is not something that people normally associate with me!!
But how about scribing up from each stair tread, either its front, back or middle and then join the dots.
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