I'm eager to renovate the stairs at home. I have an old pine? staircase with fixed profiled stair noses that I want to keep, so the kits available on the market don't really work because the stair nose is part of the tread.
Buying these risers and then cutting off the stair nose seems unnecessary and wasteful.
What I'm looking for (I think) is a relatively thin solid oak board <10 mm that has suitable dimensions to then cut out pieces to use as treads.
The materials I've looked at are either too thick, like shelves, countertops, etc. Trim and such that have the correct thickness are far from the actual width I need.
I've thought about using oak parquet, but it seems difficult to make the cut edge look nice. It can, of course, be hidden with some sort of brass strip, but ideally, I would like something solid all the way through.
Does anyone know where such material can be found, and is it practically possible to make an oak board (glued board) in the required size as thin as 10 mm, or will it be too fragile?
Or is there another stylish solution I might have missed!?
