Sydney Lake Lodge Rustic Stair Balasters & Newl Posts

A mile stone in the building of Sydney Lake Lodge's was finally reached, with the completion of the lodge stairway.
The Sydney Lake Lodge Rustic Stairs were designed by John. The question was always where are you going to put the stairs. The problem for a conventional set of stairs was the lack of room to put them. Last fall when laying the oak flooring an S curve was laydout on the floor, there was the answer for the stairs, with a few adjustment here and there the stairs were built. The biggest problem was the hand railing. I found left side left side, a bent birch tree was curving up through some dead fall from a earlier blow down. The biggest problem was now the long right side. Two days later I found a prospective curved spruce tree. The question was to cut it and look for the next piece., When insecting the tree it was found that it was longer than expected, after clearing away the moss and leaves off trunk I found it was 80 " longer, laying on the ground and then cut it off at the root. When it was put on top of the blaster's the biggest piece fit just right - then cutting it and turning the piece 180 degrees the smaller piece fit just right. Could you believe the luck in finding that piece of wood. Putting on the railing took some minor adjustments to complete the hand railings. The center focus on the second floor is the hammer beam truss with the semetricaly curved arches that came off the same tree.