6/20/08 Sam's had a busy week. He whipped up a table/island base for a local cabinetmaker, has been working with Jim on the grill parts and finished up the tapered, trapezoidal posts and bases for a custom contemporary railing that he's working on. The 'feet', (steel plates with threaded supports) will be lagged through the treads and into the stringers and and then the posts will be bolted to them giving them a clean contemporary look. After mounting them and making patterns on Monday he'll fabricate the railing sections and weld them in place on site.... The top detail will also be confirmed after the posts are in place. There's a ladder involved somewhere to get to the skylight above but I'm not sure where that's going now ...
CAD drawing
The hollow trapezoidal posts and half post bolted to their respective plates
Finials on the posts, anatomy of a half post and half finial
CAD drawing
The hollow trapezoidal posts and half post bolted to their respective plates
Photo to the right shows the post mounting brackets
The finials
The half finial against the wall
Finials on the posts, anatomy of a half post and half finial