After fixing the railing at church they now want me to build a whole replacement railing. I was planning on making it out of 1" square tubing with 1 1/2"X3/16"for the top and bottom rail. I'm just worried it will look to plain. What they have now is the twisted square stock wrought iron and looks nice but I don't have a machine to twist material. Is there a supplier to buy such material or would my 1" tubing look good? I see there are a few of you that do this work and could get me in the right direction.
Thanks, Shane Wyman
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Thread: Railing help!
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03-18-2007, 06:57 AM #1
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Railing help!
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03-18-2007, 08:20 AM #2
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I think this web site will help you as they sell anything you may want in the metal fab world. King.com. Archetectural Metals. They ship right to your door.
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03-18-2007, 08:21 AM #3
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King Architectual Metals and Triple S Steel should have it online. If not in a twisted, they should have a 1" hammered that would look good.
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03-18-2007, 08:34 AM #4
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Our local Home Depot stores are selling twisted pickets and pickets with baskets. King has a lot of stuff but consider shipping cost.
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03-19-2007, 06:32 AM #5
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King has 1/2" x 35 7/16" twisted pickets on sale for $1.90 ea.
I recently ordered 750# of steel from them and shipping from Baltimore to Fayettville, NC was $150.
Do the math.
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03-19-2007, 05:24 PM #6
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That's a great deal! Thanks for the info guy's!!!
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03-20-2007, 02:12 PM #7
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As long as you're using hot rolled, just grab a couple of adjustable wrenches and start twisting. It's really not so bad!
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03-20-2007, 02:55 PM #8
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depending on how often you plan on building railings. You could build a jig to make your own pickets. But for a $1.50 migth as well order them.
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03-20-2007, 03:00 PM #9
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dont have a machean do it old school all you need is a A/O torch, a vice and some friends. heat it up to cherry red weld a pice on the top first then stick it in the vice and twist it that what ide do
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03-21-2007, 07:30 PM #10
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I use a company called decorative iron. decorativeiron.com/DecorativeIron/
They ship very quick, I have also used king.
You might try asking a large steele dealer in your area if they can get the molded top rail, that gives the railing a nice look rather than using flat bar.
I use the molded top rail and 1" sq tubing and 1/2 inch sq for the pickets,
then i put a couple of forged picket casting in on each railing to dress it up.
It cost alot to ship some of this stuff, so try to buy stuff local.
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