Box newels can be located through out the stairway, but
are usually located at the top or bottom (first or last stair tread).
They're usually constructed from all sorts of different pieces of the
same type of wood.
It's not uncommon to have a boxed newel with more than
20 different individual pieces, cut and shaped to form one part of the
stair handrail system.
Most stair newels are shaped from one piece
of wood on a lathe and come in different shapes and sizes. Both a box
newel and a shaped newel can sit in front of or on top of the stair
treads.
The picture above shows the boxed newels sitting on top of the bottom
stair tread. However, this type of handrail system might not meet your
local building
code requirements.
Some building codes require the hand railing to extend 12 inches beyond
the last step. It all depends on how the building department interprets
the stair building code.
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