re: Wedding Cake Base?

Hey thanks LittleBlackDuck, yes, please do use this simple mech, it adds do much fun.  This can also be used on an urn, which is something we have all likely made at least once by now.  Ya, no distractions during that part of it anyway, lol.  

WildBrianWood, As far as the letters go, I printed out an alphabet I liked from google images, made a template, taped it to the workpiece , then slid a piece of carbon paper under to trace it all out.  I removed the template, then proceeded to burn a million tiny dots to fill the spaces of the letters.  Time consuming, but the old school still gets the job done.