Brutalist Systemdek anyone?
An amazing gift from a great friend for a big birthday. A while ago we bought him some woodwork tools for his big birthday and as a follow up I asked him to make me a nice new wooden plinth for my Systemdek, it's been (apparently) languishing as a project for him for a while, but this weekend he 'fessed up and delivered the goods.
Both of us are big fans of concrete 'Brutalist' architechture (think Lasdun's UEA campus or The National Theatre) so he went the whole hog with it and has crafted me a boardmarked concrete plinth! It looks amazing (IMO) and already works pretty well. There are some tweaks to make (It may end up with a wooden top as it's really hard to get the tolerances right in concrete) but it's all heading in the right direction.
Thought some of you might like to see it:
http://i.imgur.com/36zrfNH.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/1PXhMdc.jpg