The progress on the push pole platform is coming along quite nicely. Here are some of the pictures below. The top is made marine plywood and the rim that supports the top and creates an ascetic boarder around the platform is also made up of three layers of marine plywood. All layers go different directions to give strength and rigidity.

To determine the height of the boarder I followed my father’s advice of using the 2/3rds rule, 2/3 thirds wood revealing 1/3 aluminum. Since he is a very accomplished architect I figured he would know best. The first picture is of the mock up I made to determine the thickness of the boarder. The following pictures show the progress of the top and the boarder and the last picture shows the router table I will use with a template bit to cut the boarder flush with the top (template bit not shown). I plan for that to be my next post and it will show the new bit I picked up at Woodcraft for routing the template. Oh yeah… and pray I get to feeling better. I have the flu. It is going around here in Texas. My little boy has it too. Thankfully my wife does not.