re: Brave or Stupid?

Thanks for your understanding guys, such a disappointment though, I really would have loved to have had a crack at that job.
Bentlyj, you are the Sketchup Sifu. In your drawing I think the bottom four members would be fine in compression, in fact, the design would push them together, but still not sure about the top members wanting to splay. Then again, to be honest, I’m not an engineer or a materials analyst, is the 100kg weight equally distributed on all the joints? Would the top legs each have to carry 25kg (a bag of cement), or does the distribution mean they only have to carry 12.5kg.
My initial thoughts on this project was to make one X and then using all thread, attach the crossing members through the X. I thought of making it as a hollow form in oak and veneering it with walnut to close it all up.