How to: Tapered Columns

songs used in this video are from epidemic sound
T-Shirts & Sweats - Erosion
Dusty Decks - Strings Attached
Henyao - Waste My Love
Molife - Jackfruit
Pearce Roswell - Just the Banjo
Job - Jingle Bells (Lofi Version)
Cospe - Terminal Velocity

[@johnwhipple3566]

I breezed thru this video yesterday in preparation for building the same thing. Basically I fast-forwarded to the finished product to see end results. Today I was glad I watched the whole thing because it was very funny and very well edited🎉 Thanks Jared

[@stanmichniowski9029]

Always a pleasure to watch you work!!!

[@800acceptnoimitation]

I wasn't aware that they made exterior MDF. You go buddy!

[@michaelsalmon8087]

Synchronized finish nailer to the music is killing me🤣 Love it!

[@2018tundra]

Best carpenter videos out there. Well done 👍

[@m777howitzer4]

You're a gem. Thanks for the knowledge🤙🏽

[@haciendadad]

This is probably the best video on how to make these tapered columns, other videos I've seen is some guy with a woodworking shop with all these expensive tools, this guy just has regular tools like me. Also, I never thought of using exterior MDF, so that was cool but I saw the price of a sheet at $175, the non-exterior is only $59 so I will probably test my skills with a cheap version to work out the issues. Finally, I love watching this guy's video because he is so down to earth and funny. I bet he was a quirkysmart kid growing up. I'm a new subscriber now!

[@nickreffer3046]

I love the work, you are a funny guy man

[@ryanrents126]

I have that same broom lol. Love it. And as another guy said, you sir need to rig up a saw guide out of some scrap sheet good. A scholar like yourself would appreciate it.

[@fernandovaldes6914]

Omg so much knowledge in that QR code!!!

[@janicesmith6244]

That QR code took me back!! You are so awesome!!!

[@TMPK]

😂 thanks!

[@derekkious4127]

Enjoyed the video🤘🏻

[@rayhewitt4688]

Good going MacGyver excellent video

[@dominioncrowntv5197]

Excited for the newest TMPK video 😎🤙

[@vfxsoup]

Love this channel… ‘never gonna give you up’ buddy

[@TMPK]

😆

[@HallPh.D.]

Dang - I had to screenshot the code after you said not to. You never do let me down 🎶

[@desireesparks4903]

Love the 🎶 music

[@TMPK]

Thanks! Not my music, but I do put the most time into choosing what I think is the right song for the video. Even if it’s jingle bells 🤣

[@tonybrown3800]

This guy must be protected

[@johns6147]

I’m gonna use that horse trick. Thanks.

[@1957kwick]

I don’t know what the building codes are like. where you were building but they seem very lax. if that’s a loadbearing pole you would need more than to just toenails at the top and glued at the bottom. Onto a cement base with no L brackets or straps or hangers.😱

[@TMPK]

Yeah very few if any codes on that in rural Tennessee. Never had any issues with all the weight of the front porch holding them down. I’m not opposed to L brackets but sometimes they just don’t seem necessary. Until the tornado comes 😰

[@jddavis4487]

That's why he covered them. hahahahha

[@seanz1232010]

i agree. how hard would it be to knock that out with some impact or lateral movement? So easy to get a concrete screw in with a tie. on a couple sides.

[@nickp3173]

This exterior mdf holds up well to the elements? Never heard of it. Very interesting!

[@TMPK]

Supposedly. I’ve never had it on anything on my house but I haven’t had to go back and replace any that I’ve built so I guess it’s good 👍

[@SuperChaz43]

Great video! Thank you, question on the 2 interior sides did you deduct the thickness. Of the board x 2?

[@HandBuilt]

LOL QR code. love it

[@briansigma1342]

Good instructions. But this guy has a good personality. Funny

[@Rizzo2185]

Damn, exterior MDF seems so risky, especially here in the Pacific NW. But I’ll definitely take your word for it

[@TMPK]

It’s got some weird chemicals or something. Once you first cut into exterior mdf vs regular and you smell it, you’ll be like, oh this isn’t gonna rot for 10,000 years 🫢 obviously it hasn’t been around that long but I haven’t had any call backs about it in my 16 years of use 🤷‍♂️

[@jddavis4487]

Did i hear Christmas music? so festive.

[@eliesedehaarte8304]

Beautiful work though

[@thadh4085]

You should throw together a saw guide. Super cheap and easy to make, it'll be help your speed breaking down sheet goods. If you're interested I can link a video. That saw horse trick though, game changer, I can't believe I never thought/have seen that before. Thank you! Edit: I about died when the Christmas music came waltzing in

[@TMPK]

I just don’t do it often enough for saw guide life. 99% of the columns I build are square so the table saw handles all of that. 🤣 I’ve been sneaking Christmas music in for awhile now. Maybe one will technically be a Christmas video like Die Hard and get watched every year 🤞😅

[@tonybrown3800]

What would be cool tho, if you did a crown mold cutting video. I remember seeing you cut the crown face down from the back. (Pause) and the cuts came out perfect.

[@eliesedehaarte8304]

Never heard of exterior MDF hair up north we do the columns with PVC

[@zephyr1408]

Do you just work for one contractor or several and customers who ring u all up!

[@MattMoss92]

Hey man awesome stuff! Where can I buy exterior mdf ?

[@TMPK]

We get ours from lumber yards. In Huntsville, Alabama there’s a place called Wilson lumber or city lumber. I think even 84 lumber, which I think is nation wide? Maybe you have a place like that near you.

[@MattMoss92]

Thank you, can you stain it?

[@gustavosoto1362]

Hey I Need a job did you need a hand ?we’re did you work ?

[@billw3549]

Was that 1/2" or 3/4" MDF? Great video!

[@TMPK]

3/4. Thanks!

[@alfredoantunez215]

How do you do 8x8

[@markelwert2016]

QR code is fantastic

[@rickhislope1047]

If a guy wanted a stained knotty pine look what could you use thar would last

[@bradmason8334]

will they apply cement? Whats the finishing step

[@TMPK]

Not sure what you mean? The columns will be painted

[@pcatful]

how about MDO as a material?

[@TMPK]

What’s MDO

[@pcatful]

@@TMPK Medium Density Overlay

[@TMPK]

@@pcatful if it’s waterproof I guess? I haven’t heard of it.

[@pcatful]

@@TMPK Yes. It's more water resistant than mdf. It's used a lot for exterior signs. I just wondered if you had any experience to share on that. I'm always looking for material for this sort of thing. Any of these materials can be trouble if they get wet, so whatever's best. I used to use a material called Socomi lam which was a veneer wood product, but they don't have make it anymore.

[@zephyr1408]

Obviously these do not hold up the front porch. And that MDF marine grade holds well on a vent hood and about 2-5 yrs outside in that environment you know like a cold to hot blaring summer environment ? Are you having better luck?

[@sthrngent098]

How many people commented on the bottom of the boards touching the top of your bricks. Water will ruin them!

[@TMPK]

Thousands of people

[@budnotu]

I had to turn off the sound because it stunk.

[@TMPK]

Fact check: sound can’t stink. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk

[@mrm14_88]

Rick Astley. Did I get that right?

[@TMPK]

😬

[@robertbizzarro8586]

What about the entablature, Frieze, and Cornice. See Audels, Carpenter and Builders Guide if you want to know how old school carpenters would have done it. Your can find the information about scale, why is the bottom of the post the diameter it is? How does that relate to the top diameter, how high should the base be, etc... Not bad for a young man though. You can only go as far as you're taught.

[@dominioncrowntv5197]

Most builders and GCs today do not care about that stuff anymore. It's just food for thought essentially these days. Old guys will argue with you but really most builders care about price per square foot and the profit margins not how well everything is proportioned. Me myself I love that stuff and wish we did it more but it's just a sad reality today, most people in construction do not seem to care about that stuff anymore..it's sad

[@kasen3688]

promosm

[@garbaldy9926]

I stopped watching Burbon Moth so now I won't watch another of your videos because you, obviously, are attempting to duplicate his act! Not on my time!

[@TMPK]

Never heard of it