Current Picture 8/27/20
Hi Everyone,
I thought you might be interested in knowing about a most unique project I’ve been working on here in my stair shop. It’s a 33-ft long black walnut slide built with 438 layers of cross-laminated layers of hardwood and I have been building in my shop in Sierra Vista, AZ for the last 6 months.
I spent 2 years designing it and now 7 months building it. I have about 3 weeks of work to complete the stair and railing before installing it in a round tower room on an 8000 sq ft house in Sacramento, 950 miles away.
Scaled model 11/10/2018
Few humans have the budget to match their dreams. It’s amazing to find someone who will pay you to have so much fun! But it’s also been an enormous challenge! Sometimes it just about drove me crazy! I’ve been jarred awake in the middle of the night many times wondering what I got myself into. ? But after some sweat and brain wrangling, I get the next step figured it out. ?
The slide is designed for adults and children. I built a 7-foot long prototype last year and, my clients who are grandparents, tested it along with their grandchildren and everyone approved it.
Page down to see the progress photos to date. Enjoy!
Exterior of Tower Room
Clyde Martin
Phone/text: 520-895-2060
4433 S Moson Rd, Sierra Vista AZ 85650
Tower Room -looking down-
Prototype of Slide
Tower Room -looking up-
Basic Drawings
Cutting Slide Parts on CNC
Slide Parts 2/21/2020
THE SLIDE BEGINS TO TAKE SHAPE
Want a ride?
Curved Slide/Stair Timeline
11/15/2017 The clients originally contacted Clyde Martin saying an architect gave them my number recommending Top Tread Stairways as a company who may be able to help them with their dream, a curved wood slide and stairway.
1/19/2018 Clyde met with the clients and, after listening to them describe their dream, laid out some basic ideas he felt could be done in that space. The clients put down a few hundred dollars toward a basic CAD drawing of the stair and slide.
11/10/2018 Clyde built a scaled model of the slide and stair and met with the clients to present the initial design he had proposed. The clients were overjoyed, saying they had been looking for someone to built their dream slide for more than 8 years. It began to look like their dreams might come true after all!
6/19/2019 The client made a sizable down-payment towards final design and initial construction.
11/14/2019 Clyde built a 7-foot long, full-scale MDF version of the slide and met with the client at their home in Sacramento, CA in order for them to test it. Grandpa watched while grandma and the grandchildren tested and all approved it!
2/21/2020 We cut the parts for the slide and began assembly in our Arizona stair shop.
7/22/2020 Clyde completed the last section of the 33-ft long slide and began sanding.
8/03/2020 Clyde began building the stair stringer
8/24/2020 Clyde completed the stair stringer and began building the spiral newel post and other railing parts.
Delivery and installation are currently scheduled for September 15-30, 2020, Lord willing
Clyde Martin
Phone/text: 520-895-2060
4433 S Moson Rd, Sierra Vista AZ 85650
