I want to build a handrail for the stairs in my home. The stairs it will compliment curve over a section appx. six feet long as they rise to a small landing [ which is perhaps why no handrail was ever fitted ]. The rail will have a cross section of minimum two inches square, so I think I shall laminated the rail - to substantail to bend. I hope to use pine wood 8mm thick; because that's avaialble in the stores here as T&G flooring.
I can work out the radius of the rail as it follows the wall just by making a takeof from the wall. What I can't picture is the second radius that has to be molded in to accommodate the stairs as they rise a total of appx. six feet. I have to hold the wood laminations as they glue in a compound curve.
I'm sure this has all been done before [ or figured out ], can anyone point me in the right direction for some info. Please.
Thanks.
John Hewitt, Malaga, Spain