Comment by jcims
2 years ago
Somehow as easy as it is conceptually, I still find cutting 3 stringers that line up well to be surprisingly difficult. In part because I’ve only has to do it a handful of times in my life.
2 years ago
Somehow as easy as it is conceptually, I still find cutting 3 stringers that line up well to be surprisingly difficult. In part because I’ve only has to do it a handful of times in my life.
Either you use jigs or you tie them together temporarily and cut the stack.
Yup. If you're doing almost anything in wood, a set of clamps is more useful than you'd think.
I made a table. The legs are all exactly the same length, but don't ask me what that exact length is - I eyeballed the height I wanted and then clamped all the legs together before cutting them.
Another tip for building things with legs - a 3-legged object is stable on any uneven surface while a 4-legged objects will wobble on uneven surfaces.
This is because 3 points make a plane, adding a 4th point that is not on that plane introduces a wobble.
Easiest way to avoid that wobble: get the legs to within 1 mm, add felt pad to the bottom of the legs. The pressure of the table will compress the felt and all four legs now contact the ground.
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pretty amazing how the simplest of solutions seems to be so elusive. i've been guilty on more than one occassion of making something seemingly simple as difficult as wrangling cats.
It's just experience. Everything you've done before or that you've seen done by people that knew what they were doing is trivial, everything you haven't done before is difficult.
A sister comment to mine gives you one strategy, but you can also use the first stringer as a template to the rest.
You can create a template online, print it out, and use it to get perfect results:
https://www.blocklayer.com/stairs/straighteng, click "Show Notching Template", then "Diagrams to PDF"