01-24-2014, 05:23 PM
sailormatlac Wrote:....I'm not that much excited to make the handrail...
Matt, if you have a suitable handrail, use it to make a pattern from sheet styrene or heavy cardstock, then fasten the pattern to a solid surface. This will allow you to bend soft brass wire directly to the pattern, in most cases making the bends using the pattern as a forming tool.
If you have nothing but photos and your models to assist you, use soft brass wire make one very accurate handrail for each type required, then make the patterns from those.
Once you have good patterns, you can also form the handrails from music wire - it's too difficult to bend using a pattern as the actual forming tool, but an accurate pattern will show where to place your pliers to make such bends. This will give you very durable handrails, dependent, of course, on the material used for the stanchions.
Wayne