Have to start with a glue up . Did not think I could find 6 x 6 dry pine so here we go with 3 pieces of 2 x 6. Tried to get the knots toward the surface outer edges as these would be turned off. Remember you can never have too many clamps
After squaring the blanks on table saw we will need a centered hole to assemble the two parts of the post as this lathe is not lon