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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.

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This video depicts one of a pair of 7″ X 34″ alder island legs turned for a customer in Arizona.

This is a video of 7 1/4″ X 11′ Spanish Cedar columns made for a local contractor

These fluted balusters in soft maple were made for a customer in Mass.

The picture below is a set of soft maple barley twisted balusters for a stairway makeover in St Louis. These have become one of my more popular balusters. They measure 1 3/4 inches at he squares. The particular balusters follow the rake angle of the handrail at the top and bottom. This means the turned section is the same length throughout.

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I just completed these balusters for a customer in Arkansas. Since it is a remodel job they wanted the new exterior balusters to match the existing balusters. These were turned from Spanish Cedar and measure 3 1/2 inches X 26 1/2 inches. The original is shown in white on top the other crated for shipment.

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This is my first video clip of my lathe turning. In this video I am turning two

custom stair balusters. I will eventually load this directly to my blog. For now it is an embedded file from Google Video. Thanks for watching!

I wanted to immediately post these baluster and newel pictures made by a friend of mine in Mass. They are for a customer in Washington state. I had written a post about this project somewhere else but we are near completion. My buddy did a fantastic job on these didn’t he?

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The balusters alternate between the tapered, barley twists and the regular twist. This is the way they were in the Silas Dean home. An image of the originals can be seen here.
This next image is a picture of one of the barley twisted balusters being milled on my friends Wema lathe. The process is to turn the pieces first and then set the lathe up for milling. It is two completely separate operations.

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And finally the barley twisted maple newel to complement the balusters (or is it the other way around). The stair configuration is over-the-post. Which means the handrail is continuous and mounted on top the newels thoughout.

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I love the square detail near the bottom of the newel and balusters. This is a traditional design. My lathe is not really equipped to make this detail so my friend agreed to do these on his lathe.

Pictured below are one hundred 2 1/2 inch X 38 inch balusters for a job in Mississippi. The pin on top is 1″. This customer actually designed these with very nice drawings. I made a previous post about these. I rendered them in Google sketchup for the customer to get a 3D feel for what the final product would look like. It really is a nice design. Should look great installed. They are turned from poplar.

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