Folks,

Thanks for all the great ideas. You have got my brain working so I should
be ok from here.

Thanks again

Larry C
"John McCoy" wrote in message
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"TeamCasa" wrote in :

Run it through the tablesaw and chamfer the legs. You may also route
flutes into it.

Take the chamfer to an extreme, and make octagonal posts. If no
tablesaw, use a plane.

Use a spokeshave to cut stopped chamfers.

Make a square, tapered post...it can taper to be quite thin at one
end (using table saw or plane, etc).

Use a router to cut a bead on the 4 corners. If no router, use a
scratchstock.

Instead of a "post", use a piece that's wider in the front to back
dimension, and cut some sort of ornamental bracket/gingerbread type
shape into it, using a bandsaw/scrollsaw/fretsaw/coping saw, whichever
is available.

Take your post & taper it both ways from the center, use the plane
to make it octagonal, then 16-sided, then round (you can get very
close to perfectly round with a block plane & a little care)...now
you have a round post with a nice swell in the middle, without
any lathe involved.

Lots of possibilities here...

John