Our boat has handrails on the cabin ceiling and out on the cabin top that were made as a matched pair, through bolted together. When I had my handrails off the boat, I could see they were made in pairs. Each pair is made from a single piece of wood. The carpenter used a hole saw to match the inside curve of handhole and provide a starting point for a sig saw. Draw knife would probably be best for shaping.
When I refinished them, I used the fasteners to keep them paired up and they are easier to sand and varnish that way. I rigged lines to my shop ceiling with large coat hanger hooks, to keep em at a working height. Chuck Resolute 1990 C&C 34R Atlantic City, NJ ----- Original Message ----- From: "D.Drake" <d...@rogers.com> To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 9:22:04 PM Subject: Re: Stus-List - Handrail heartbreak Mine broke as I was installing it ! I feel your pain . I have since replaced the wood grab rails with Stainless ones On 15/04/2013 8:32 AM, djhaug...@juno.com wrote: > So, > > I decided to make new handrails for Lolita. All I could find on line were A.) > not long enough and B.) 12" on center for the loops. Mine are 11.5" on > center. > > I go out Saturday morning and buy a couple 5" x 12' rough cut boards (one as > an extra), buy myself a router and router table and I'm off and running. > Well, I noticed a couple knarly areas but they seemed solid, I tried to bend > them and twist them and the knot was not well formed and definitely seemed > solid (you already know where this is going right?) > > I worked on these the rest of the day Saturday and a good part of Sunday. I > had just started finish sanding and the opposite end slipped off the table > and the stupid thing broke! > > I was gutted! I guess better now than after I'd finished them > > I was all happy with how they were turning out. Lesson learned...no knots are > good knots! > > Well at least it won't take as long this time and I only have to make one. > > Here are some links to the work and the heartbreak... > > http://sdrv.ms/103PWto > > http://sdrv.ms/17BaJES > > http://sdrv.ms/17BaQ38 > > You can probably see why I felt new handrails were in order when you see the > new ones next to the old ones. I'm willing to bet those are original and > never saw any attention. > > Oh, and my handrails were lagged to the deck from below instead of through > bolted. Anyone else have the same condition. I'm thinking I'll to the same > thing only with heavier lag bolts. This way I can completely finish them at > home and won't have any touch up work after the install. At 24 hours between > coats and doing the suggested 8 coats, thats a real time consuming job. Not > to mention a lot of gas a 30 miles each way! > > Danny > Lolita > 1973 Viking 33 > Westport Point, MA > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > -- D.Drake 73 Jensen Healey C&C 26 _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com
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