Decorative Arts: The practical house carpenter, or, Youth's instructor containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture; the five orders laid down by an entire new scale.: Stair-Cases.

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Pain, William (1730?-1790?) / The practical house carpenter, or, Youth's instructor containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture; the five orders laid down by an entire new scale.
(1792)

Stair-Cases., pp. Plate 131-Plate 136

Page Plate 131

Plate 131.
Plan of curtail step and rail.
The pieces 1, 2, 3 are glewed to the rail a to make the twist part of the
rail, c is the block for the eye of the rail.
The curtail step and rail stretched out to find the length of the newel and
banisters under the twist the measures taken by the scale the rail &
step stretched from a to b.
Parallel piece to make the eye of the scrole.
Pieces cut by the pitch board before glewed together.
Pitch board.

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