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Creating a Gingerbread Railing

Bob meets Ryley outside the Victorian style house in Massachusetts to help him with the railing. Ryley starts with two by six vertical grain fir for the top railing and routes out a ridge for the balusters and applies standard moulding to the sides. Bob and Ryley head back to the workshop to create the balusters. Ryley traced the pattern from an antique baluster to create the design to create a form. They trace the pattern onto individual pieces of wood and cut out the pattern with a band saw and scroll saw. The meticulous hand cutting is what leads to the beautiful antique pattern. Back out at the site Ryley shows Bob a tip for dealing with the quirkiness of antique wood. He builds a template by scribing the angle on scrap wood then cuts the railing using this form. Bob uses sugar pine for the corner angles.
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Creating a Gingerbread Railing

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" Well last week we got just about finished framing all of the porch and now we've got a roof over our heads here and your trimming it well that's right that's ultra. -- how did you make this this railing let's the piece of two by six retrograde for a we just took Fayette creek water out of the senator have a with a -- And then we apply today when he half round and we decide the the balusters they do it -- them out are just lit into the top there that's right that's they -- they look pretty good. You're gonna cut out. -- it and corsets and worked so. You're you're really kind of creating a different outlook get a look at capitalist individually it looks a little bit like a pineapple when you put that altogether you're creating kind of -- quality. And if you want to see how we -- if not the workshop. To look for look. So Riley this is gonna take a long time to do what's the first step -- have done is take this piece of plywood up to it railing. And traced out what was already exists existing maps or -- that detail right and then you do you cut this out this that template. -- did it will be gone from him and -- take that in and place it on these one by five. And by six OK and then how do we actually cut out the form well -- this -- the key hall in the middle will do is they yeah hand wrote. Just want to drill through until appoint comes through the other side yeah you don't want to go all the way through the if you do all the way -- you're drilling you can always count on doing that. But if you only. Here's the other side of the woods and then come back with the same bet you've got a getting nice yeah. Will be doing that 90% of this need to be cut away on band saw OK. So. Can just come right over here well. It's about yes. -- with advanced others only so far you can go and trying to make cuts you really need its growth -- to -- it all right -- origins. Extend that cut -- Disney's little sandpaper alone. Look great how many of these doing it about 35 -- very busy. Anytime you -- antique building materials with new wood you're apt to find a little quirky -- in this case our post which is nice and square up top when you get down to the bottom. You'll see that it's twisty. Along the way. A full half inch in just five inches and we've gotta cut a top rail here we want to make sure to make a mistake that's right we'll cut -- one time so we're creating basically a -- right on time whether or template. And -- this is some left over stock reviews and when this place that up there and transfer that angle onto a piece despair would put them right up against the post and scribe it. -- fact they've done here that'll be our guide. That's our guide for cutting through actual rails. All right let's see how this. In. Perfect it let's get the balusters night. But then you and it's not from the medal in. Go towards the end so that they'll be evenly spaced and again there. OK that's the finishing thank thank you up on the top of the porch posts. -- right that's made out of sugar pine that's a ship on its right Atlantic real clear white pine and did you cut it just on the -- The bands are in the Saber saw. And -- more of those they spent a galvanized finished and we've got a Victorian."

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