Pre-manufactured stair balustrade product and method

A newel for use in balustrades, comprising a tubular member having spaced front and rear walls and spaced sidewalls normally connected to the front and rear walls, all of which have an upper edge and a lower edge;

• said tubular member being open at both the top and the bottom, and having an internally disposed block disposed a finite distance less than the total elevation of said tubular member, upwardly from the lower edge of the front, rear and sidewalls,
• said block having a first bore extending downwardly from the top surface thereof, to a point of communication with a second bore of a diameter greater than that of said first bore, and which second bore, extends upwardly from the bottom surface of said block;
• further including a hex bolt having machine screw threads intermediately positioned in said first bore, and a distally located machine screw threaded headless lag bolt extending through the block disposed in said tubular member, and an internally threaded coupler threadedly engaged to the machine screw threads of said hex bolt, said coupler being disposed in said second bore and threadedly also engaged to said lag bolt.