Barry, the rails look great. Nice job!
One thing I did when installing my railings was to make a crude template using the curve of the outside edge of the deck and then plot the run of the stanchions. I marked little dots along this template to show the stanchion locations and put little boxes along the run to indicate where the deck fittings would be located along the edge of the deck so as to try and avoid having a stanchion placed in that spot.
I was fortunate to find photos of the actual ship which helped in figuring out the number and location of stanchions along the deck. I also noticed in the photos where a deck fitting was located along the run of the rails, like a chock, the lower rail was left out of the railing at that location, with a stanchion placed on each side of the fitting, which allowed space for the fitting between the stanchion and below the two upper rails.
I'm not sure if Savage has the same setup, but using a crude template made figuring out the stanchion location and spacing a little easier for me, and I ended up just clipping out the lower rail where it spanned the fitting. It was a little more work drawing this template, but the rails then fit pretty well and I avoided the potential problem of having the stanchion or lower rails in a spot where the fittings were located.
Not sure if this will help in your case, but thought I'd throw that out in case it might.
Jim
