Hey Fellas,
I have been meaning to make up a base for the euro skull I had from my big billy from the story
http://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=091265 A mate from work cuts a lot of firewood, and I told him what I was after so he kindly obliged.
A nice wedge of River Redgum
(Eucalyptus camuldalensis) with a bit of burl in it. I hit it with the plane and then the sander, and a few coats of oil later and here's the result
I drilled a hole in it and put a length of rod through it to hold up the skull and the result looked pretty good to me.
Hope you like it,
Memo.