Monday 21. June 2010 European stuff development in stairway building Sibiu 2010
By: Robert Pawlowski
In line with the cultural building site we held a course in stairway building from the 7th until the 18th of june this year. Eight travelling journeymen, one interested person and one retired journeymen, as well as two Romanian apprentice appeared in the trade school of Sibiu.
We were introduced to the art of stairway building tutorial, by the retired journeymen carpenter Matthias Kregel and the retired journeymen cabinetmaker F.V.D Christian Rummel.
In week number one we were engaged in forming and construction of modern and historic stairs. With the help of numerous examples methods of accomplishment, material selection and measurement on the building site were explained to us. At this the various possibilities of post joints, handrail solutions and types of steps were not missed out. The completition of the theoretic part illustrated the fasteners, the lower limits, the planning laws and the surface treatments. The theoretic contents were consistently bulked with applied, calculational and graphical exercises. Until smoke was coming out of our ears we justified the pace-size-rule, methods of distortion (graphical, rod method) and the stair string execution.
After several excursions related to the field of stairway constructions, we started to fabricate models, scale 1:2, in groups of three people. In this connection a newel stair, a full mortised stair, an open string stair with rolling steps and handrail, as well as a flight of stairs combined half mortised light-stringer and open wall-string orginated. Certainly all models were styled, constructed and fabricated as quarter-turn, respectively half-turn stairs.
The elevations were made on paper, scale1:1. Also the string executions were drawn on paper and we glued them on the rough wood. After the succeed elevation we started with the practical realization in the workshop. Along the lines of marking and pecking out four gorgeous stairs were fabricated under Romanian conditions, scale 1:2.
Concluding we are indebted to the instructors and the translator Anda Ghazawi, for this professional enrichment.
The bar is set very high for subsequent courses and it would be wonderful, if more stuff development in this vein takes place in Sibiu.
The travelling Freedombrothers
Andreas Baumgartner and Torge Huhs
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