Yeah that structure for the Chinese man never happened, his interpreter told me privately that he was a crook so I ran away from it as fast as I could :-)

Jay, it's the carpenters out there in Pa. who will be doing this plinth work and I doubt they'll be able to do the stone work just like I could do the carpentry part but not the stone work. I was hoping for advice more about the scale and style of the plinth built with masonry.