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Bespoke Wood Handrail.
Every wooden handrail on this page is made to order in the timber of your choice. Nothing here is off-the-shelf stock: you choose the profile, the wood and the lengths, and UK timber manufacturers quote against your specification. That is why a stair handrail, banister rail or landing rail can be produced to match what you already have, instead of settling for the nearest section a merchant happens to carry.
We cover the profiles people actually ask for by name: pigs ear handrail, mopstick handrail, half round, chamfered, grooved and traditional moulded handrail profiles, plus the matching baserail, half newel and stair parts that go with them. Pick oak handrail in American or European oak, or ash, walnut, beech, sapele or pine indoors, and iroko or another durable hardwood for an external handrail. There are more than 100 pre-designed handrail profiles to browse below, and if none of them is right, a sample, photo or drawing is enough for suppliers to quote a made to match replica.
Made to Match Existing Handrail.
If you are looking to match existing Handrail, please select the profile that best / closest matches your product from the following options. Alternatively, we also have a range of pre-designed Handrail mouldings to choose from by using the filters further down this page.
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Get a price: choose the closest profile above for an instant guide price, then compare quotes from UK suppliers.
Browse our pre-designed Handrail bespoke wooden profiles
If you are not looking for an exact made to match Handrail profile, we currently have 101 pre-designed Handrail profiles that can be made for you, in the timber of your choice.
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Made to match an existing handrail
Most enquiries here are replacements and repairs rather than new staircases: a broken run on a wooden banister, a missing length on a half landing, or a second flight that has to look identical to the first. Start by picking the pre-designed profile that comes closest to yours from the options on this page. If nothing matches, send one of the following and the profile can be reproduced from it:
- A short offcut - the best option by far. Even 50mm of the real section lets a manufacturer copy every curve and quirk exactly.
- An end-on photo - shoot the cut end square on, flat against a plain background, with a steel rule or a coin in shot for scale.
- A drawing or template - press a card against the end, trace round it and mark the overall width and height in millimetres.
What to measure before you ask for a quote
- Section size - overall width and overall height of the handrail in millimetres.
- Groove - if the rail takes spindles or glass infill, measure the groove width and depth. Common UK spindle sizes are 32mm and 41mm.
- Running length - total metres needed, plus an allowance for rake cuts, scribes and waste. Say how many separate lengths you want rather than one long total.
- Straight or curved - note any wreathed, curved or continuous handrail sections, because these are quoted very differently to straight runs.
- Timber and finish - the species you want, and whether you need it sanded ready to finish or supplied unfinished.
On a domestic staircase the handrail is normally set 900mm to 1000mm above the pitch line, and a section that is comfortable to grip is usually around 40mm to 50mm across. Check the current Building Regulations guidance for your own project, especially on stairs used by the public.
Period, heritage and listed buildings
Victorian, Edwardian, Georgian and Arts and Crafts staircases rarely use a section you can buy today. A victorian handrail is often a deep moulded or mopstick section, and a Georgian one may be slimmer than any modern equivalent. Because everything is cut to order, the original profile can be reproduced in the same species rather than replaced with a modern lookalike, which matters in a listed building or a conservation area where the existing detail has to be kept. Reclaimed and repaired runs can be extended the same way: match the section, match the timber, and the join disappears once it is finished.
Choosing the timber
Oak, both American and European, is the usual choice for a hardwood handrail and takes a hard-wearing finish. Ash is tough and pale, beech is economical and takes stain well, walnut is dark and rich, and sapele and idigbo sit between the two. For an outdoor handrail or a guardrail on an external step, iroko is the one we recommend most often because it stands up to British weather without constant maintenance. Softwood and pine handrail sections are the budget option and are best kept indoors or painted.
How the quoting works
Wooduchoose is not a merchant with a warehouse. We connect you with UK timber suppliers and moulding manufacturers, so one enquiry puts your profile in front of several of them and the quotes come back to you to compare. Guide prices are shown online as you build the specification, so you get a feel for cost before anyone contacts you, and the firm-priced quotes follow. Handrail is usually quoted alongside the rest of the job, so add your baserails, newels, spindles and stair parts to the same enquiry and the whole balustrade can be matched in one go.