Shape of porch columns, buy ready-made or make yourself?

[Yrrol]

Need to replace the porch roof pillars as I've found rot damage.

Instead of just swapping to the same boring ones, I'd like to get this shape;



As if they've put the pillar in a lathe and just touched it up a bit. (disregard the collar) Do you think it's easy-peasy to modify regular ones to look like this, or should I try to find ready-made ones?

 

[Bernieberg]

You can easily create the chamfers with a hand router. Buy simple square posts, so you can choose the depth of the chamfers and how far they should go, giving your personal touch to it all. I did the equivalent operation when we built a stair railing.

 

[gnuttisch]

Stupid question but do you mill such chamfers?

 

[Bernieberg]

Dum fråga men du fräser man sådana fasningar?

Yes, you do that with a 45-degree chamfer cutter, it turns out just like in your picture. You place some sort of stop where the chamfer should start and end, for example, a piece of wood. Then you simply follow the edge with the help of the cutting tool's bearing.

Here's how my post turned out with just a small chamfer. I also routed the upper horizontal grooves all around. It's fun to make your own post!

 

[Yrrol]

but doesn't it require a very large router to achieve chamfers as wide as in "my" picture?

 

[Fjojtmehmet]

Otherwise, you use a standard end mill and an angled base plate

 

[johel572]

Or saw with a bevelled plunge saw and fine-tune by hand in the transition.

 

[Bernieberg]

It will probably work fine with a "regular" sized router. They can do it in multiple passes if it's difficult, but I don't think that's necessary.

The nice thing about using a chamfer router is that you get nice finishes on the chamfer automatically just by stopping the router.