I’ve always enjoyed the mental exercise of planning a piece of plywood furniture to maximize efficient use of the material in the sheet stock, so I tend to appreciate good ones when they pop up, every now and again. Here’s a nice example, a 32-inch-tall staircase, with four one-foot steps, from Instructables user Pilgrim55.
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I have an issue with four one-foot steps only making a 32-inch-tall staircase.
there is 4x 8″ steps or a total of 32″
Not sure if you are joking, but I think he means 1′ wide, not high.
Thanks for the sharing helpful post. I like it.!
by “one-foot” I believe he means literally one foot as in one of your feet per each step
You can use the corner cut-offs as braces inside the box sections (glued and screwed), too, to achieve 100% use. This is very cool and would make an interesting contest.
For figuring out the optimal use of sheet goods you should give
http://cutlistplus.com/
a try (no affiliation) it’s really good at figuring out what should go where.
That’s sooooo weird! I posted a how-to just like this about a year ago on my own blog:http://www.prettyspecialrecords.com/2010/all/pretty-special-business/message-from-the-president/how-to-build-this-stair-kinda-thing/
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