[TheForge] Spiral stair pics

[Jerry Frost]

Looks good Mike.

About the lack of forging. . . A little mortification is good for the soul. 
Of course you can rail against it later. <grin>

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca>
To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 10:20 PM
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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