To all who commented on the most recent Arica's Silver posting thank you for your comments. I must say that I was quite suprised buy the volume and variety of the comments. None of the previous postings has created such a discussion. The Arica's Silver website was created as a way to keep my friend Arica up to date on the progress of her kayak, as she lives several hundred miles away. The ability to share the same photos seemed with the readers of this board seemed like a good thing as well hence the various announcements of web site updates. I make my living as a professional photographer and in my daily work I use the process of shooting polaroids during the setting up of photos as a way to focus my vision and as a way for my clients to see what the finished photo will look like. The photos I've been taking of the mock-ups of the deck design work much the same way. I work slow and methodical in my photography and the same carries over to my woodworking. In the final design for the deck for this project the fore and aft desk will look much the same, both will have secondary branches and blossoms. For the final design the blossoms will be a redish wood rather than the Pink shown in the photos, and the branch will be some variety of highly figured hard wood. In the final design the branch will be thinned out a bit more,(I think it looks a bit thick), and there will probably be two sizes of blossoms with burned in detailing. I feel that the previous discussion was a good one, its always good to hear pros and cons.
Scott