Thanks for the kind words! I have 10 more pieces of black glass, 7 more risers and a 4 1/2" stack of amberboo tapers ready to go..gonna try to glue up 5 "blanks" next week and build all of them at the same time..I might slip a couple of pieces of 020 carbon into one of them just to see what happens..I have had the carbon for 4 years, might as well use it.