{"id":2816,"date":"2012-08-03T10:12:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T16:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/?p=2816"},"modified":"2012-08-03T10:12:17","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T16:12:17","slug":"building-a-treehouse-part-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/?p=2816","title":{"rendered":"building a treehouse part 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i finally got a few minutes to add the next step to my treehouse &#8211; the front railing.  first i cut 2 square dowels to fit inside the front support beams.  i measured and marked the center point, which in my case was 6 inches (i still alternate between inches and cm depending on which is easier or works better) then i drilled a hole for the spindle pinion (at least i think that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s called) the first hole was too small but worked great as a pilot hole for the bigger one.  next i figured out the spacing for the other 6 spindles. that turned out to be a perfect 1-1\/2&#8243;, easy! \ud83d\ude42  i drilled those too and once i realized the holes had to go all the way through the dowel i placed the second under the first while drilling and got perfectly spaced pilot holes in my second dowel and none in my counter, bonus! \ud83d\ude09  for the second dowel i used scrap wood underneath to protect the counter.  here is the result.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onebluestocking\/7702643826\/\" title=\"treehouse 20 by onebluestocking, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8153\/7702643826_a10e11bd8c_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"504\" alt=\"treehouse 20\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>next i glued the bottom dowel to the base and weighed it down so that it dried flat.  once the glue was dry i glued all the spindles in place, top and bottom and then glued the top of the railing at the ends. so it now looks like this.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onebluestocking\/7702644408\/\" title=\"treehouse 22 by onebluestocking, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8155\/7702644408_221daf93ef_z.jpg\" width=\"592\" height=\"640\" alt=\"treehouse 22\"><\/a><br \/>\ni just have to sand the top of the railing since the pinions came through in a couple of places then add my balsa veneer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i finally got a few minutes to add the next step to my treehouse &#8211; the front railing. first i cut 2 square dowels to fit inside the front support beams. i measured and marked the center point, which in my case was 6 inches (i still alternate between inches and cm depending on which is easier or works better) then i drilled a hole for the spindle pinion (at least i think that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s called) the first hole was too small but worked great as a pilot hole for the bigger one. next i figured out the spacing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[93,12],"tags":[258],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2816"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2832,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions\/2832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}