[TheForge] Spiral stair pics

[Larry Brown]

Very nice, and a good how to description of the scrounging and fabrication
Larry Brown


At 03:20 AM 8/5/2005 -0300, you wrote:

>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                                     /( )\
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