[TheForge] Spiral stair pics

[Rob Fertner]

Sorry, the last one was sent incomplete. It should of said:
Now you have to forge a handrail for the stairs out of new metal for the
dichotomy of it. :-)

Rob

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[mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Rob Fertner
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 9:50 AM
To: mspencer at tallships.ca; 'Sponsored by ABANA'
Subject: RE: [TheForge] Spiral stair pics

Mike,
Now you have to forge a handrail for the stairs. :-)
Rob

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[mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Mike Spencer
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 1:21 AM
To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [TheForge] Spiral stair pics


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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