Wood Hand Rail 2 inch dia 4.8m lg - Anywhere off the shelf ???

Wood Hand Rail 2 inch dia 4.8m lg

I am just after pine not redwood or hardwood

I just cannot seem to get it anywhere at any local timber merchants, I can get banister rail stuff. But its too expensive and to big in size.

Any ideas where I can get off the shelf ??? or do I have to get machined up from square ??

Can I get a router cutter with a 20mm radi on a 1/4inch shank.

Reply to
chili-girl
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I guess it depends what you mean by "too expensive". Machining costs would make the machining option quite dear. These people do it at £5 / m but there would be delivery.

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Bob Mannix

Well if you can find pine, then go with pine. However much "pine" in the UK in generic crappy whitewood and actually hemlock or low-end spruce, which is just a bit too low-grade. I'd probably use generic crappy redwood instead, which might be Douglas Fir and usable quality.

Generally it's cheapest machined up to order.

Somewhere the size of B&Q can afford to keep it on the shelf ready- machined elsewhere. After all, _someone_ has to machine it. Smaller places will do it to order, just to save on keeping unsold stock, and they're cheaper than the big orange sheds anyway.

I sincerely hope not.

I've got a fairly big and solid router table, but there's no way I'd work something this size. For this scale you need a spindle moulder, or at least a shaper.

Reply to
Andy Dingley

I got approx 2 1/4" - (about 55mm) diameter pine handrail at B&Q. Round section except for flat base for support fittings. They did have long stuff which I'm reasonably sure was 4.8. However, I needed about

4 metre and, for ease of transport, decided to get two 2.4 m. and cut one down and just butt them together - worked fine. 2.4m length was =A318:62.

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Toom Tabard

On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:12:08 +0000, a certain chimpanzee, chili-girl randomly hit the keyboard and produced:

Are you asking for the right thing? I would call what you're describing a "mop-stick" hand rail.

I got some last week from a timber merchant. Went to Yell.com, picked one nearest my sister (where I was fitting it), and got them to deliver. No problem. They also had similar at my nearest Wickes.

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Hugo Nebula

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