Well I finally have my new shopping cart up and running on my Architectural Turnings site. I had been wanting to do this for some time and have just completed it. We will now offer many of our products as inventoried and ready to sell items. Were we were selling as made to order and emphasizing custom turnings, our customers can now make a purchase online without first contacting us for shipping and availability questions.
We will continue to make custom turnings and are revving up our offerings for inventoried stair parts through our relationship with Crown Heritage in Wilksboro, North Carolina.
Radius crown is a project I don’t often have the opportunity to do. A cabinet maker asked me to make a number of pieces for his project because the supplier he normally uses quit carrying them. These are used to create rounded corner crowns instead of mitered crown around cabinetry. Kind of a French look.
They came out nicely I think. These were made in cypress, a popular wood species, in this area. Larger View
This is a follow up on a previous post on a round base newel. This newel was originally requested by a custom that liked one of the newels offered by LJ Smith Stair Co. They wanted something a bit larger,however, so we made a 5 1/2 inch version. This round base cherry version went to Anchorage, AK. I think it came out nicely. Larger View
I get a lot of questions regarding some of my over the post newels and how to attach the rail to the newels cap. So I created this little sketch up drawing to help my customers understand the relationship between the newel cap and the rail fitting. See below: Larger View
The handrail fitting is attached to the newel cap by cutting a pie shape out of the newel cap and a corresponding point is cut on the rail fitting. After being fastened together, they are glued to the pin on top the newel.
