Todd M posted:"A lot of things in a car build don't work out the way you planned."
Now, THAT was funny!
And whatever my car build is throwing at me, my staircase project throws triple. It took me 4 tries to build half of the curved maple handrail. And I'm still not satisfied, but I think I may have a mutiny on my hands if I started the handrail over; again.
I'm a painter in construction, and in a rather high end new house my brother and I were painting 25 years ago we watched the finish carpenters lay up the railing for a curved stairway with a landing in the middle. It was made of oak- they cut the material into 1/4 x 1/4" strips and laid/glued 1 layer at a time to deal with the multiple curves. They would do a layer in the morning and then another in the afternoon before quitting time- took 3 or 4 days. After it was machined, installed, stained and clear coated it was stunning!