How to Build a Lamp Post / Fun DIY Woodworking Project 

Hi All! In This step by step how to video I'll show you how to build this decorative Lamp Post. Visit my website for more Woodworking Projects jonpeters.com/ Be Good! Jon

Love how that turned out.....looks great!

Looks great it turned out beautiful

Very beautiful!!!!!!👍👍👍👍👍

Looks fantastic Jon

Beautiful project and beautiful lawn!! DD

Looks awesome...👏👏👏👏

Jon, what an impressive result you have achieved on your home's grounds. It's worth remembering how it looked just a couple of years ago. Nicely done.

Looks great

That’s a great job!

That’s sharp looking. 👍

Really nice.

Thanks Jon! Love your work

Always quality work...

I love Azek. Great product.

Nice design, Jon! Very classy look, especially after adding that black paint, beautiful!

Very nice.

Nice work on the lamp post Jon! Thanks for sharing the video with us!😎👍💖JP

Very very cool Jon. I loke the balck. It shows all the details & blends into landscaping. Hoping all is well Bud, Dirty Jersey out!!

That looks great, Jon. Of course your wife was right. Isn't that the way of the world? Bill

Look's great Jon, but you must remember the wife is alway's right LOL !!!.😀😀👍👍.

Beautiful work, Jon! Really well done! 😃 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

Beautifully done. How did you install the electric wire in the post? Did you drill or create a dato in one side?

Great looking patio project, Jon~! A pair of those would do wonders for our back yard space~!

so did you put a dado in the 4x4 to accomdate the wire?

Where did you run the electrical for the light?

Great result John. I'm guessing you used Red Grandis for the wood trim? A good outdoor wood of course.

Looks real nice. What kind of wood did you use for the face frame?

I sure was excited to see you working with the PVC so I could see what you used as a screw hole filler....but then you covered with the wood face plates......UUGHH gut punch

Thats very classy. Stained wood and painted plastic would be more my taste.

Nice job, Jon. What is the reason you went with wood for the face frames vs. the PVC you used elsewhere? Thanks. Looks great as always.

What kind of glue will stick to pvc?

Great video Jon!! Can you address how you attached the light to the top? Did you seal it somehow with caulk or just screw it in?

Can you give me the link to the last router but you used.

Здравствуйте! Доски белого цвета из какого материала? Не могу понять, похож на пластик, или это дерево чем то обработано?

Great work Jon. Did you use Titebond to glue the Azek together? Thumbs up. Best to Laurel & Olivia.

Nice! Not related but are there plans available for your miter saw station? Thank you.

You said the cap was white oak but you didn't say what the rest of the face frame was. It looked a bit like oak in some of the shots. I was wondering how you ran wires to the top of the post for the light. From the shot where you are sliding the cover onto the post it appears that you have conduit running up the inner post in a dado.

Hi Jon, as someone who works a lot with Azek/ pvc, I see several potential problems. When using pvc, pvc glue should always be used. It is stronger than screws or nails, since the glue welds the pieces together. My other concern is that you e mixed dis-similar materials, pvc and wood. Pvc expands drastically with temperature changes, as it expands it will blow apart your wood joints. Since you’ve introduced pvc into the project, why wouldn’t you do it all in pvc? The pvc holds paint really well, doesn’t rot, and is impervious to insects. Pvc is a great product when used correctly. It’s unfortunate that there is very little training for the material. Dark colors are also a big problem for pvc, it with cause the pvc to expand more drastically than normal. Nice lamp post!

looks great!~! website is down btw 😓

1:41 How well does Azec accept pocket screws? Idea for joke: You keep feeding the 4x4 into the box and it never emerges out the other side. Schrödinger’s Lampost?

How is the tall light post doing that was made a few years ago? I remember that you concerned about it's durability.

how did you do the wiring for the lamp? Is it battery powered?

Why use oak if you're going to paint it? Wouldn't pine work just as well for less?

Jon you didn’t address the lamp install. I was kind of hoping this was a solar lamp install since my property is just to big to run wires. Most of my exterior lighting is some kind of solar because most of my yard has no wiring or old wiring. So I’m highly motivated to go solar.

Where’s the sawstop?

Jon, very nice project! I was hoping you were going to credit your wife with the suggestion, at least I would.

very nice high quality fine wood working. yet, to paint in black I think 2x lumber is enough for this project.

Man, that thing is sweet but it looked a lot better unpainted.

nothing like $20K worth of equiptment to make things easy.

Wood glue on pvc?

Very nice.