In article , troep wrote:
After six years the posts on our front porch need to go. Several are
rotting and the rest are coming apart where the sundry tiny scraps of
wood were finger jointed together to create something that mimicked a
board.

Are you talking about short posts to hold up a railing, or long posts that
hold up the roof? If the latter... Home Depot sells them already made, in
several different sizes. Nominal 5" square x 8' long is $69. Hardly worth
making your own, at that price. I'm guessing that they probably sell
the shorter posts, too, but I haven't seen them.

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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his butt.
And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?