Since this part will need to handle both twisting and downwards pressure, i did FEA analysis of the part, and changed the design until i was happy with the result:
immediately after machining the part, i had to play with it to see if it was rigid enough. Needless to say, the part snapped. The problem was that i had not taken in acount the direction of which the grain in the wood is orientated.
Disapointed with todays result, i gave up any further work, and instead pimped my office-cactus with some ultrabrigth LED's and ate chocolate.
