I've spent the last couple of days putting together this low plinth for a rock at our dojo.
The timber is most likely rimu, though I'm not 100% sure about that — it's cut down from some old demolition beams I got a few years ago. Here it's seen getting the first of several coats of oil.
And here we have the rock in place, on a bed of river pebbles.
It's a bit nicer than the ratty old bit of black-painted MDF we had it sitting on before.



