Stair Baluster Installation with Wooden Spindles

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so far in the staircase renovation we've transformed this old outdated staircase by closing in the stair stringers had a new new oppos adding wainscotting on angles creating shoe rail for stair spindles painting the whole thing out with an HVLP paint sprayer and installing the handrail this spindle installation uses shoe rail on the bottom of the spindles and a handrail with a channel underneath the spindles are spaced apart with Filat strips that fill the gap in the shoe rail I started the installation on the easiest part first in this section I test fit the parts first to make sure the spacing was right and then I took it all apart and reassemble it again with glue I've installed the spindles here and glued them and put all the blocks in on the top here I ended up taking this Philip and screwing in from the top similar to what was done before this is the previous railing and they had done this connected everything so this is all that one unit now and because I have a channel in the bottom of the handrail this piece now slides over top and just get screwed in from underneath you can see here I put a screw in to secure the railing to the new low post and I have a fill at strip here and I've just back cut a little bit here so it won't interfere with that screw and all we're going to do is glue this together and I put that up in here and clamp it on and we're good to go I've now moved under the angle portion of these stairs and it's a bit more challenging to figure out how to layout the spindles what I've got to do is cut at the right length because if it's too long the spindle will be out of plumb if it's too short it will be out of plumb this way so I need to figure out exactly the length of the spindle and get it plumb at the same time so to do that I've come up with a jig this jig allows me to slide these pieces longer and shorter and what I do is I insert it into the groove in the shoe rail and into the dado of the handrail and adjust it to the right length I put a level here and make sure that it's level and then lock it in with the nuts this now gives me the perfect length that I need to cut the spindles to so now that I have the right length I need to figure out how to make these points equal so that when I cut the angle this will be in the center hi I've put some marks on my jig here so I can line them up with the shoulders of the turning on this side here if I try three inches on this side I get two inches so if I go for two and a half here that gets me at two and a half here so I know I'm now in the center I just need to mark that with a pencil and cut these off here's a closer look at the spindle length Jake I built this is just two pieces of MDF that are put together with bolts and if I loosen the bolts on the top it allows us to slide shorter and longer and then I can tighten it again at the right length on the short end of the miter on the top here I've got increments written and on this length I've done the same thing here the fastest and most accurate way to cut multiple pieces is to put in a stop block this is secured here at the length that allows me to bring in a piece line it up hold it and cut it and this gives me a consistent cut an accurate cut and I know everything is exactly the same I've caught all the Phillips strips and I've dry fit these pieces here what this allows me to do is understand how wide these spindles are so I can figure out the gap on this end which you can see is large and the gap on this end which is much smaller so we mathematically just add up the distance here divided by two and allows me to Center them so the next step is to cut the fill it strip on the start at the bottom here and at the top and that will set the first piece I can then attach all these pieces in here and the last piece is just to cut the fill out strip at the top and then fill it in I'll show you in some fast motion how that all comes together the Assembly of the stair spindles was easy once the parts were cut they fit snugly in most spots in a few areas where the spindles were not as snug I drove in some finishing nails to give them some extra holding power I avoided putting nails through the filleth strips because I had a high quality sprayed finish and eaten one or more of them up once it was all put together he was just a matter of letting the glue set and we were good to go I followed the same process for the rest of the staircase as you can see it came together well quality is important to me and I strongly believed what my father taught me about woodworking if you're going to do something do it right the first time I'm going to leave you with some links to other videos in his home improvement series if you enjoyed this video please give it a thumbs up until next time enjoy your time in the workshop [Music] [Applause]

Channel: Home Improvement Woodworking

Views: 91,417

Rating: 4.9034853 out of 5

Keywords: stair spindles, stair balusters, staircase, how to, stair renovation, staircase renovation, woodworking, home improvement, remodel, balusters

Id: 2X8kZGaQy_g

Length: 5min 33sec (333 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 25 2018