Creating an angled stiped pole (North Pole)

[brickman]

Hi there,

I am wanting to create a striped pole that would be used in a Christmas build as a "North Pole". I wanted to create the stripes angled rather than straight and then possibly put a light brick in the top surrounded by transparent/translucent blue bricks. However, I am struggling to create the stripes in a cube. 

Can anyone recommend the best way to do this, or suggest which brick number(s) I could use?

Many thanks!

[Johnny1360]

 What are your limitations, size wise. Are we talking tiny or bigger than life? 

[Aanchir]

So like candy cane stripes, in other words?

One simple option that occurs to me would be something like this:

Each layer is made up of two of part 67329 and eight of part 35787, evenly split between the two stripe colors of your choice. The resulting pole should hopefully be wide enough to support a light brick towards the top like what you're envisioning.

The main drawback of this build is that there's no room to run a bar or Technic axle through the center for added support. But if this is for a static display that shouldn't be a major problem, as long as you don't make it too precariously tall!

[MAB]

The vintage macaroni bricks can be offset, unlike modern ones. So you could use those to create a 4x4 circular cross section cane. Plus it would have an open core to run cables through.

[CastleRail]

Keeping to simple parts you could try:

Left image showing part usage.

It's pretty sturdy and has room down the centre for a spine/cables/reinforcing the sides

[brickman]

Thanks for the replies! Those solutions are great, so will give them a try!