I'm not a professional welder; only a hobbyist. That being said, I have learned so much from you and Jody about methodically laying out a project, tips for spacing, welding in a comfortable position, equipment, etc. The music makes this even more relaxing to watch.
From a relatively new home gamer like myself having a blast welding scraps in the garage to a $$$ making pro like yourself, I have much, much respect for your skills and videos like these help keep me motivated and always wanting to learn more!!! 👍👍
Your music choice just made my day. Fabricator 1 staircase zero. Pissing rain and snow outside my shop in Canada this November evening, so your video just brightened things. Thanks much. B.McP.
From a relatively new home gamer like myself having a blast welding scraps in the garage to a $$$ making pro like yourself, I have much, much respect for your skills man and am trying hard almost everyday to up my welding skills to hopefully be employable in the near future! Videos like these keep me motivated and always learning!!! Please keep putting out great content.
I love the classical background music. For some reason it fits your videos perfectly every time. Stair case looks amazing. Thanks for sharing the install site as well. Always nice to see a finished job. 😀
First 5 comments are from other CZcamsrs, that's saying something about the online community. Glad to see a constructive group get even stronger. The music doesn't hurt either.
Great work as always man. Ive built quite a few spiral staircases and it was really interesting to see someone else do it. I like how you made the eyelits instead of stacking a colar up the center column. I used to cut colars and put a set screw in them. The treads were cut and reinforced after being bent/broke. Hand rail was the worst part. Had a fancy machine for rolling but that was only on a single plain. So i would eye ball it as it came out of the dies and pull it to make the helix. Keep up the great work.
For some reason its easier for me to listen to classical with a bit of welding going on in the background. Thanks for the hard work you put into your videos brother!
Great build JD, who says you don't need math to be a fabricator eh. Getting the top rail of the handrail right would have been a challenge too I imagine. Magic Sir, magic. 👍👍👍🙆👏
I will have to say that this is a bad ass fabrication job! Enjoyed watching you build it and the on site install. I found you through Jodi's channel. Subbed to yours now as well. And like most others, love the music. Will be checking out all your other video's.
Many years ago I made one of these stair cases for an underground pumping station. Before computers ! Lots of layouts! Made from steel and aluminum. Cut everything by hand. Bending the steel pipe handrail and installing it was a HUGE headache. Didn’t have a pipe roller, only a torch. Once was enough.
Serious tool envy for that cutting machine, even though I do nothing that would justify owning such a machine. I'm assuming you put the treads on the centre pole before attaching the kickboards for a particular reason? Anyone else I would assume it was so that if they warped in the welding, that wouldn't stop them fitting together - but you don't seem to have problems with stuff warping out of shape.
And for a beautiful, under the radar move... @t=5:08 -- Like a rock drummer flipping his sticks while playing... Mr. Brewer removes the vise grip clamp, then rotates/flips it, before again setting the clamp in place..... Just fun artistry. I like it.
Lewis Renovation yes, every three steps were perpendicular to each other. So if I held one tread level with the jackstand then all I had to do was plumb the other tread. Thanks for watching!
Very cool use of the plasma cutter. Love your videos. JD, in my area people charge about $60 CAD/hr (about $50/us) for basic CNC Plasma work and include design time with it. Waterjets are pretty much overbooked till the end of time because of auto industry boom. Does this sound about normal? I am trying to weigh the cost of PLASMA purchase VS outsource for now. In other words, can I make enough on side work to pay for the plasma or put the $10K into something more profitable in the short run? Thanks for the videos!
John Adams plasma has a much faster turnaround.... on ROI as well as project turnaround... unless the majority of your cutting need are thick I'd stick with a plasma. Thanks for watching
Hey JD, How did you correct the transitions on the railing? At 9:04, they seem to be off a bit. Anyways thanks for the video, your process gives some great ideas, excellent music choice as well.
nice stairs, if ]you could answer me, whats was the material cost and the total of? how much the client payed ? I´m curious, I´m from Brazil and the labor here is very underpaid.
JD Brewer thanks for the reply. I going to look in to them. The iron ones are going to be to expensive to ship to Belgium i think. Do order them on the website?
JD! Great vid! thanks for posting this. I'm being asked to quite a spiral staircase and I'm rather intimidated. Was this set to code? Did you have any resources for plans? I did find some good tutorials from woodworkers. What will you do differently next time, if there is a next time? ( I think I heard you say on the podcast that there won't be :-) Thanks!
Stephen Dumaine no plans, completely to the customers needs... and I'm pretty sure it not to any code. The customer kinda set the price by all the restrictions upfront. This was a pretty "bare bones" build and it's mainly just for fun not the only way to reach both levels. But just like any custom job sometimes you make good money and sometimes poor money... but still made money.... I don't really have a good answer for the price.
each step was a 30* pie slice right? and did i count 15 steps? what was your rise? run? how was foot clearance? head clearance? was it easy/comfortable to use? sorry for so many Q's!
A thing of beauty, JD. What were your using to power the tubing roller? Have you seen diamond cut better from the diamond side? I usually cut it from the flat side, but I'm not using a plasmacam.
Great build! A couple of questions; which make and model is your plasma cam? It is cutting a very clean cut, how do you have it dialed in? The notch cutter I have not seen before is it shop made? Thanks
JC S thank you.... it's a plasmacam dhc2 4x4 running a hypertherm powermax65. I believe the key to good plasma cuts, is clean dry air.... and the tubing notcher is a westward fab, but it's modeled after the JD2 squared tubing notcher.
I'm not a professional welder; only a hobbyist. That being said, I have learned so much from you and Jody about methodically laying out a project, tips for spacing, welding in a comfortable position, equipment, etc. The music makes this even more relaxing to watch.
Gary Stark good to hear, thanks for watching!
Thanks for bringing us all along for the build. I know you had a few challenges but you muscled past them and got it done and it turned out great 👍
weldingtipsandtricks thanks alot Jody!! Glad you liked it!
From a relatively new home gamer like myself having a blast welding scraps in the garage to a $$$ making pro like yourself, I have much, much respect for your skills and videos like these help keep me motivated and always wanting to learn more!!! 👍👍
So many levels! Great build JD. I lean so many fabrication techniques from you videos. Thank you
Master of None Nice, thanks alot!!
Your music choice just made my day. Fabricator 1 staircase zero. Pissing rain and snow outside my shop in Canada this November evening, so your video just brightened things. Thanks much. B.McP.
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!!
From a relatively new home gamer like myself having a blast welding scraps in the garage to a $$$ making pro like yourself, I have much, much respect for your skills man and am trying hard almost everyday to up my welding skills to hopefully be employable in the near future! Videos like these keep me motivated and always learning!!! Please keep putting out great content.
I love the classical background music. For some reason it fits your videos perfectly every time. Stair case looks amazing. Thanks for sharing the install site as well. Always nice to see a finished job. 😀
Ben thanks, thanks for watching
Simply amazing. I’m at a loss for words here. I don’t know if I could ever do that. Wow. Great job sir
I think this build is like the video and music, that's why I gave a thumbs up. Bloody Excellent, cheers from John, Australia.
JD , that looks fantastic , you never cease to amaze me with the high quality products you turn out!!😀👍
Randy Treeman36 thank you very much!
This is awesome! I was thinking about Spiral stair cases on my drive home the other day. Excellent work JD!
First 5 comments are from other CZcamsrs, that's saying something about the online community. Glad to see a constructive group get even stronger. The music doesn't hurt either.
AWESOME, JD!! Spiral staircases are a real challenge but your end results were great! Nice build!!
Reid Eichner thank you very much!
The best type of staircase, nice work
Great work as always man. Ive built quite a few spiral staircases and it was really interesting to see someone else do it. I like how you made the eyelits instead of stacking a colar up the center column. I used to cut colars and put a set screw in them. The treads were cut and reinforced after being bent/broke. Hand rail was the worst part. Had a fancy machine for rolling but that was only on a single plain. So i would eye ball it as it came out of the dies and pull it to make the helix. Keep up the great work.
Moto Z thanks, I did that trying to cut down on the overall weight. The handrail totally sucked
For some reason its easier for me to listen to classical with a bit of welding going on in the background. Thanks for the hard work you put into your videos brother!
JD as always a great job well executed great fabrication those fireball squares are the business 🤘🖒
James White thanks, yes they are!!
Fantastic. Looks great. So many things can go wrong on a project like that. Yikes.
Wow JD, That is amazing!! very good work with the plasma cam, And all of it for that matter. Great job!
JIMBO'S GARAGE thanks alot, Jimbo!
That looks awesome! I love spiral staircases
Great build JD, who says you don't need math to be a fabricator eh. Getting the top rail of the handrail right would have been a challenge too I imagine. Magic Sir, magic. 👍👍👍🙆👏
whitedoggarage haha, yup. Thanks alot!
the music for this is perfect, so enjoyable to watch *thumbs up*
Fantastic job JD! I can just imagine the hrs that went into the handrail, wow!
Richard Valcourt quite a few! Thanks
Quality fabrication for sure! Wow, end result is amazing!
Awesome work JD! My work just got a plasma table and I wish I was even close to your level at operating it. Thank you for the video
Donovan Morris just practice it's not to hard. Thanks!
Beautifull work, beautifull video an music!Thanks!
Carlos Servidio thanks for watching!
I enjoy all your videos iam a welder myself and I always get great ideas from watching you keep up the great work jd
Chad Knotts thank you!
I will have to say that this is a bad ass fabrication job! Enjoyed watching you build it and the on site install. I found you through Jodi's channel. Subbed to yours now as well. And like most others, love the music. Will be checking out all your other video's.
Mark A. Awesome, thanks for watching!
Greetings from Jimmy Diresta channel. :) Great work with this barn doors.
Many years ago I made one of these stair cases for an underground pumping station. Before computers ! Lots of layouts! Made from steel and aluminum. Cut everything by hand. Bending the steel pipe handrail and installing it was a HUGE headache. Didn’t have a pipe roller, only a torch.
Once was enough.
The cnc is the only reason I tried it.... and yes, once is enough!
That is pretty sweet JD, great job ! 👍👍
Terrminator again thank you very much!
I really need to get myself a plasmacam for my everlast plasma cutter. That software makes fabrication so much easier.
Wow bro that was a great job and a fun video to watch, you’re killing it with all the different ways to use those fireball tools!!
Joel Fabricius thank you, glad you enjoyed it
You're the man. That looks very well done
Skeetmgeett thanks and thanks for watching!
Very nice
I just googled your company, I’m in Marietta. Small world. I was in villa rica yesterday haha
Nice one. I bet that fitting and bending that hand rail was a bugger of a job. Great end result!
tom arkle it as the worst
That was extraordinarily pleasant to watch.
Robert Palmer glad you liked it
Beautiful job.
Great work and music
Turned out wonderful thanks for the video
Mark Crotty thanks for watching
Awesome work JD! 👍👊
Fred McIntyre thanks!
PERFECT, Professional Build/ Install.
Magnificent JD
Cordially, David
Hell yeah, awesome project.
Hatchet Lake thank you!
Pretty work!
Very awesome man I’ve been waiting for this video for a while thanks for sharing your amazing
Eric Long sorry it took so long... tha is for watching!
Amazing If at all possible could you tell me how you were able to manually put a helix on the cap?
Talented guy thats for sure
Serious tool envy for that cutting machine, even though I do nothing that would justify owning such a machine. I'm assuming you put the treads on the centre pole before attaching the kickboards for a particular reason? Anyone else I would assume it was so that if they warped in the welding, that wouldn't stop them fitting together - but you don't seem to have problems with stuff warping out of shape.
Awesome job JD!
Scooter Rat thank you!
New Subscriber, Great Work‼️👍👍. Vinny 🇺🇸
Thanks!
"Awesome job JD!"
Fantastic job!
Brendon Jarrett thank you!
where'd you get that heavy duty triangle square? i gotta get me one!!
Thanks! been waiting on this 👍👍👍👍👍
Gib Clark thanks!
Very impressive!!
Great skill Great Music!!!!!!!!!
Jerry Jordan thank you
Impressive. Very cool.
Alistair Spence thanks
And for a beautiful, under the radar move... @t=5:08 -- Like a rock drummer flipping his sticks while playing... Mr. Brewer removes the vise grip clamp, then rotates/flips it, before again setting the clamp in place..... Just fun artistry. I like it.
Belleza maestro mi respeto saludos desde Ecuador 🇪🇨
Pretty cool JD. I think you need one more bubble level. :)
Tyler Schneiter thanks, you know it😉
Good job. Great video.
Craig Fuller thankj you
Very nice work jd
Seth Mercer thank you
That is one bad ass staircase.
alexander howa thanks!
jd your level is too high for me and you work like a beast perfect work sir
mohammed troy haha I appreciate that, thanks for watching!
Looks awesome is there anything you can’t build. You do an awesome job with everything you build 👊
Chris Wojnarski there's plenty I can't do. Thanks for watching!
Another enjoyable video and music! Ever wondered how you got by without those Fireball Squares?
Mark Tracy they have completely changed how I work... can't imagine not having them now
Very nice JD! Were you using the jack stand to maintain angular rotation on each stair tread?
Lewis Renovation yes, every three steps were perpendicular to each other. So if I held one tread level with the jackstand then all I had to do was plumb the other tread. Thanks for watching!
Great video..👍
how did you do it to give it the angle asia up ??
That looked difficult as far as getting the next step in the correct position around the staircase. Good work!
Thanks!
Nice! It's funny how a couple weeks of work only translate to a few minutes on CZcams! Haha
5th Street Fab yeah, it's tough to show everything too
JD great video! What gauge are your steps?
Made it look easy brutha 🤙🏻
Luke Podmore appreciate that!
Хорошая работа !!!
УДАЧИ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very cool use of the plasma cutter. Love your videos. JD, in my area people charge about $60 CAD/hr (about $50/us) for basic CNC Plasma work and include design time with it. Waterjets are pretty much overbooked till the end of time because of auto industry boom. Does this sound about normal? I am trying to weigh the cost of PLASMA purchase VS outsource for now. In other words, can I make enough on side work to pay for the plasma or put the $10K into something more profitable in the short run? Thanks for the videos!
John Adams plasma has a much faster turnaround.... on ROI as well as project turnaround... unless the majority of your cutting need are thick I'd stick with a plasma. Thanks for watching
Nice job JD. How far do you rotate the treads to get their placement? Never built a spiral stair and have always wonder about that. Thx
jimgam730 turned out to be easy... each stair was 30°... so after 3 steps every third step was 90° perpendicular to each other
I wonder if the do welding doggles for your hound?
Hey JD,
How did you correct the transitions on the railing? At 9:04, they seem to be off a bit. Anyways thanks for the video, your process gives some great ideas, excellent music choice as well.
nice build
Build Something Cool thanks, Dale
That's really nice work, JD. When you were rolling the railing, how did you get the rise along with the radius.
Honestly it was super choppy and not really smooth..... it's a lot of smaller pieces that could be bent
What type of tube bender do you use to bend the railing?
Very nice job
Bill Bill thank you very much
nice stairs, if ]you could answer me, whats was the material cost and the total of? how much the client payed ? I´m curious, I´m from Brazil and the labor here is very underpaid.
i am happy that you have the plasma cam but this way to builds leaves 99.7 % of us out
this can be done with a torch or plasma free hand. add in a sander and grinder and youre good to go.
Nice build! Do you have the cast iron megasquares or the aluminium ones? The really seem handy tools!
Tom Wagemans I have both, I reach for the cast iron the most.
JD Brewer thanks for the reply. I going to look in to them. The iron ones are going to be to expensive to ship to Belgium i think. Do order them on the website?
Excellent!
Carter W Hern thanks!
Sweet!!!!!
Can you make one set for me?
JD! Great vid! thanks for posting this. I'm being asked to quite a spiral staircase and I'm rather intimidated. Was this set to code? Did you have any resources for plans? I did find some good tutorials from woodworkers.
What will you do differently next time, if there is a next time? ( I think I heard you say on the podcast that there won't be :-) Thanks!
Stephen Dumaine no plans, completely to the customers needs... and I'm pretty sure it not to any code.
The customer kinda set the price by all the restrictions upfront. This was a pretty "bare bones" build and it's mainly just for fun not the only way to reach both levels. But just like any custom job sometimes you make good money and sometimes poor money... but still made money.... I don't really have a good answer for the price.
each step was a 30* pie slice right? and did i count 15 steps?
what was your rise? run? how was foot clearance? head clearance? was it easy/comfortable to use? sorry for so many Q's!
outstanding!
БРАВО МАСТЕР!
A thing of beauty, JD.
What were your using to power the tubing roller?
Have you seen diamond cut better from the diamond side? I usually cut it from the flat side, but I'm not using a plasmacam.
idriwzrd plasmacam had height control so it's a breeze for diamond plate. I was using a rigid 300 pipe threader to power the tubing roller
I'm glad some one else noticed the pipe threader and said something. Great idea. :)
Great build! A couple of questions; which make and model is your plasma cam? It is cutting a very clean cut, how do you have it dialed in? The notch cutter I have not seen before is it shop made? Thanks
JC S thank you.... it's a plasmacam dhc2 4x4 running a hypertherm powermax65. I believe the key to good plasma cuts, is clean dry air.... and the tubing notcher is a westward fab, but it's modeled after the JD2 squared tubing notcher.
Thanks!
What file did you do that with? You want to sell a copy?
Nice build man, just curious what thickness pipe/tube and size was used and what brand bender is that?
4" x .25" harbor freight bender
I’m sorry I wasn’t specific, I meant to say what size/thickness handrail. I need to redo the one in my house from cheap 1” pvc to steel.
it's rare that someone would order something like this for their house. stuff like this cost a lot of money!!
Neil Brown very true
Really nice job on that! Question: ever started your beard on fire? lol. Thanks for the video.
Duncan MacKenzie not yet!
what the price tag on something like that
thankyou friend, god bless you more