Very nice Alan, love the grain in the second newel, it's got character. I see you ran the brackets grain with the riser direction (horizontally) which is my usual way but the last one we had to run them with the strings grain, looks nice but wastes about 30% more wood. ( you should of said you'd like to use the same pattern as us......I could of sent you a PDF scaled to your rise and going ;D )
Nothing wrong with your way of setting out a stair either, it's how I was taught and has been 'best practice' for centuries, my way is just an electronic version [wink]
Roll on the next one...geometric inclined plane perhaps!? [eek] ;D ;D
Rob