Amateur carpenters who have laid out the cuts in a stair stringer (the zig-zag structural support for the steps) know the queasy feeling that bubbles up at the prospect of this job. There’s the simple ...

DIYer and woodworker April Wilkerson demonstrates a simple method for building curved stairs.

You need a framing square, a circular saw, a router, and a wood chisel to make perfect mortises. For the sake of discussion, let’s say you’re building a simple set of stairs for a deck, basement ...

To lay out a set of stair stringers from scratch requires a little math, but not much. Equally important is some quiet time to run the numbers and at the same time to think about the construction ...