If only it looked like the CAD image already. Yes it's still alive in fact it seems to have taken on a life of it's own - mine! My wife laughs at me every time I tell her I would never have started if I'd realised how complicated it was. Looked pretty simple to do in the CAD renderings. The plinth itself was pretty easy. Unfortunately I discovered some [very] old myrtle burl veneer I had and thought it might be fun to finish the plinth in the timber and french polish it. Looks nice, natural material and all that.Foolishly bouyed by initial success on the flat top section I thought this is going to be easy. Now I realise why good cabinetmakers get paid so much. Curving old, brittle, thin burl flitches is a monumental pain in the proverbial. It requires at least 4 orangutang sized arms and a heck of a lot more patience than I have. The base has been a lot more amusing and I'm particularly pleased with the sandwich construction of the various support elements. They are a mixture of the same Karri hardwood used for the armboards bonded to 4mm alucobond. Tap it and it's absolutely dead. Would be interesting to get it tested to see what if any resonances are present. The oval shapes will act as supports for the main base and connect in such a way that they can be torqued up or down to change the stiffness of the whole assembly. Should provide hours of amusement when I have no life to see if it has any sonic benefit.