[TheForge] Spiral stair pics

[Mike Spencer]

The spiral stair is a success!  Peggy no longer has to climb a ladder
to her weaving studio.  It about half the footprint of a regular
staircase.  There's even some storage space underneath it.

Someone asked for pics.  If you're interested, have a look here:

    http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/shop/spiral.html

Not a single bit of forging, all cutting and welding.  If it weren't so
cool and so functional, I'd be mortified.  Gotta do something neat and
forged for the railing at the top of the well and to hold the hawser
handrail (which is still vaporware.)

Took me the better part three weeks, of which perhaps 1/3 was driving
all over the place looking for the material, getting stuff sheared and
bent etc. (I now own a special, long-handled go/no-go gauge for
testing scrapyard pipe for a nice fit over 3-1/2" :-) Of course,
somewhere in there, my tomato plants got staked up and so on.

- Mike

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Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~. 
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mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/                        ^^-^^

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