Somehow I missed this entire build. I got a computer "ugrade and that meant I didn't log in automatically like had been the case and if you aren't logged in, you don't see the member forum. Anyway, the build looks like an interesting way to go.

On the osage orange or "bodark" as my grandfather called it, I can remember him cussing the stuff on a regular basis -- the thorns on the trees were apparently hard enough to puncture a tractor tire so you had to watch out for downed limbs in the pasture grass when you mowed. He also had some ancient bodark fence posts on the farm. Seems like that wood just does not rot. Apologies if this is a derail.