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Modern Practical Stairbuilding and Handrailing: for the Use of Workmen
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Modern Practical Stairbuilding and Handrailing: For the Use of Workmen, Builders, Architects, and Others

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No Kidding
Modern is relative

Modern Practical Stairbuilding and Handrailing: For the Use of Workmen, Builders, Architects, and Others
George Ellis
Manufacturer: Linden Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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A Simplified Guide to Custom Stairbuilding and Tangent Handrailing
Building Stairs (For Pros by Pros)
Basic Stairbuilding
Circular Work in Carpentry and Joinery
Modern Practical Joinery: A Treatise on the Practice of Joiner's Work by Hand and Machine, for the Use of Workmen, Architects, Builders, and Machinists

ASIN: 0941936155

Book Description

George Ellis was one of the premier English writers on carpentry and joinery. This, the author's last book, was originally issued in two volumes; the present edition is a reprint of the 1932 one-volume edition. The trade of wooden stairbuilding has enjoyed a rebirth during the last ten years. Unfortunately, most trade schools do not teach this complex craft, and there has been little published in the field for many years. This leaves the craftsman at a loss, both for available information and training. George Ellis has written a very lucid book on the subject. He covers much the same ground as Alexander Mowat in A Treatise on Stairbuilding and Handrailing, but Ellis is much less technical and more shop oriented. He includes detailed information on taking dimensions and setting out stairs (geometric, spiral, and elliptical), newels, balusters, brackets; constructing soffit linings, single and geometric handrailings, and wreathed handrail to spiral stairs; and he explains the cylinder method of making wreaths.

Customer Reviews:

No Kidding.......2003-12-04

Of course "Modern is only relative", and I don't know what else anyone should expect from a circa 1932 reprinted book. As if that shouldn't be enough, the editors include a new warning about safety and code compliance. If you want to build modern, I suppose you could buy one of those 'do it yourself' sunset books at the checkstand at home depot. If you would like to see how things were done in the days when cheap, shoddy and uninspired WASN'T the order of the day, this (for stairs anyway) may be your book.

Modern is relative.......2001-12-27

I build Stairs and balustrades and this book has only theoretical application. It was modern when written in 1902. Stairs have changed a lot in construction techniques since 1902...Modern is only relative.

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Modern Practical Stairbuilding and Handrailing: For the Use of Workmen, Builders, Architects, and Others
George Ellis
Manufacturer: Linden Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KY281K

The carpenter's cyclopedia;: Comprising modern carpentry, plain and advanced practical uses of the steel square, timber-framing, light and heavy stair-building and handrailing

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The carpenter's cyclopedia;: Comprising modern carpentry, plain and advanced practical uses of the steel square, timber-framing, light and heavy stair-building and handrailing
Fred. T Hodgson
Manufacturer: Sears, Roebuck & Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0008C3DLS

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