Schifter aims at a quicker completion with a consistently precise sawing result and the workpieces’ better accurancy to fit. Saving of time: Thanks to Schifter, you no longer need to painstakingly sketch the sawing angle onto each workpiece. Such cuts are mainly being used in roof, wood and metal construction. Owing to largely unchanged settings oft he saw, Schifter enables you to quickly and easily do jack rafter cuts (double angle cuts or double mitre cuts). With your input, namely the inclination and the number of the beams, the sawing angles to be chosen (mitre and inclination) for circular saws, mitre saws, sliding compound mitre saws, power saws with 3D cuts etc. With the help of Schifter, you can quickly construct a symmetric roof or other object, fitting perfectly. This calculation is merely based on you entering the beams’ designated inclination of installation (inclination of the hip rafters) and the number of beams coming together (hip rafters). (the result field to be used turns green) That way you can tweak the railing a bit.Schifter is a calculator for sawing angles, it calculates the setting angles for your mitre saw or your sliding compound mitre saw as well as the required alignment of the workpiece. I then install two handrail brackets to a chalked line (a chalk line filled with baking soda on finished paint) on exactly the same pitch as the stairs, install the handrail on those two brackets then install all the other brackets with the handrail in place. One caveat though, you have to allow for baseboards and out of plum walls at the termination. If they fit flat on the stair they will fit when lifted in place. I always cut and assemble my handrails first then lay them on the stair tread to make sure they are going to fit. I can just set my saw to the pitch block. When I build stairs or do handrailing I make a pitch block that has the miter angle and the plumb cut cut into it. You have to watch the length of the handrail though before you cut your miter because the miter angle will remain the same but the height of the handrail on the horizontal will be set higher than the height of the handrail that follows the stair pitch.

Obviously the wider the strips the more accurate the marks will be. If the plywood is ripped to the same width you just mark the intersection points on the top and bottom of the ply draw a line between your points and that's your miter angle.

The intersection of those 2 strips of ply divided by 2 is your miter angle. Lay one level on the landing and one on the stairs so you touch all the tread nosings. Re: Help- How to figure out stair handrail join angleįor a simple straight run of stairs terminating in an a landing.

How to figure miter angles