Yes there is quite a wide range of color to it, with the light side looking a lot like ash and the darker range like cherry. Didn't get pics of the light stuff but in the following pic of the treads stacked up you can get an idea. We grain/color matched as best we could. The stuff is very hard and rather brittle and machines pretty good but burns very easy so it must stay in motion through the entire cut. Fortunately I have a very nice one hoss, 8 speed stock feeder on my largest shaper...good steady feed....no hitches to get another grip etc.
They look good Robin, should make a very nice install and the colors will jump out when the finish is applied.
Yeah....I think they will get a black stain like the flooring so even the extreme differences will be muted.....to bad some of it would really shine with a clear finish.....
I like the idea of that double T&G joint in an item that will bear a load, lots of glue to wood surface contact for strength.
Yeah it's a great joint!! I had a shaper cuter before that did the same joint but was not right.......but of course I did not know that it wasn't correct. Me and Mikey made up 36 3/4" pipe clamps to do a large stair job........5 flights, some circular some straight. In trying to force the joints together we bent many clamps but got the job done......then I replaced the cutter with the one I have now and the pieces just slide together.....LOL!!!
I don't know much about the supply chain for stair parts around here as almost all stairs I build are custom, one-off affairs. I used to use store bought treads but they were quite poorly made with no attention to color or grain match....just glued together parts....whatever came off the machines. As the years went by they just got worse and worse. Once I had the equipment to make them efficiently myself I did and never looked back!
There is three local custom shops making them here and they cannot keep up with the demand, there are around 2,200 - 2,500 houses under construction now and many high rise buildings all going hells bells for the sky. The material supply chain cannot keep up with the demand. All finish materials are well behind their expected delivery dates. The custom stair component supply house, Duart , we get our materials from is a month behind on current orders
And suicide doors too!!!!....mmmmmmm!!!!! Cab is not more than 50 inches wide at the drivers seat.......I mean look were the steering wheel is compared to the front wheels!!... and with the low roof no need to chop it!!! Great Rod!!!!
I started to look for a truck like my God Fathers about 10 years too late.
Butt this is French........
Welll......ya got that going for you........sat in a special Bugatti once......saw a lot of special ones. All six......
Narrow and all fendery.......hell yes.
