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Default Attaching spindles to oak handrail


The3rd Earl Of Derby wrote:
Tim wrote:
I will be refurbishing our 1930's balustrading in a few weeks time.
There is a nice solid oak handrail, but no spindles (ballusters) - the
original construction has solid oak newels and rail but the sides are
clad in plywood on rough timber carcassing.

I will be buying some white oak spindles and baserail - the latter
will come with fillets making spindle attachment easy. But I am
unsure how best to attach the spindles to the underside of the rail.

The rail has a nice flat surface - will it be OK to simply glue and
pin the spindles to this, or should I be thinking about cutting a
rebate on the underside and trying to make up fillets? Or some other
method maybe?


Pin and glueing is not a reliable solid method since the rail will probably
get a lot of use, more to the point is you will probably see small gaps
between rail and spindle.


Especially if you have children, you want the spindles to be held in
place securely.

Rebating would be preferable. You could build up a rebate with strips
of new wood rather than cutting out of the existing rail.

MBQ