One-Sheet Plywood Staircase

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By Sean Michael Ragan
Posted 2011/05/09 @ 8:17 pm
Category Furniture, Woodworking

I’ve always enjoyed the mental exercise of planning a piece of plywood furniture to maximize efficient use of the material in the sheet stock, so I tend to appreciate good ones when they pop up, every now and again. Here’s a nice example, a 32-inch-tall staircase, with four one-foot steps, from Instructables user Pilgrim55.

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9 Responses to One-Sheet Plywood Staircase

Joel Ebel on May 10th, 2011 at 8:39 am said:

I have an issue with four one-foot steps only making a 32-inch-tall staircase.

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- Jim Cote on May 10th, 2011 at 10:47 am said:
  
  there is 4x 8″ steps or a total of 32″
  
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- Sage on July 26th, 2012 at 1:06 pm said:
  
  Not sure if you are joking, but I think he means 1′ wide, not high.
  
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groupon clone software on May 10th, 2011 at 11:25 am said:

Thanks for the sharing helpful post. I like it.!

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Jeff Ballard on May 10th, 2011 at 12:56 pm said:

by “one-foot” I believe he means literally one foot as in one of your feet per each step

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Lynne Whitehorn on May 10th, 2011 at 1:06 pm said:

You can use the corner cut-offs as braces inside the box sections (glued and screwed), too, to achieve 100% use. This is very cool and would make an interesting contest.

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Damian on May 10th, 2011 at 3:17 pm said:

For figuring out the optimal use of sheet goods you should give
http://cutlistplus.com/
a try (no affiliation) it’s really good at figuring out what should go where.

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Greg Szydlowski on May 12th, 2011 at 6:20 pm said:

That’s sooooo weird! I posted a how-to just like this about a year ago on my own blog:http://www.prettyspecialrecords.com/2010/all/pretty-special-business/message-from-the-president/how-to-build-this-stair-kinda-thing/

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