[TheForge] Spiral stair pics

[Justin Fellenz]

Mike,

That's some darn fine work. 

J

--- Jerry Frost <frosty at customcpu.com> wrote:

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