Reply by Lee Barker

Good idea to test it, Paul.

The concern over the red oak is the porosity provides homes for microbes. Bleach treatment periodically would be a good idea.

BTW, I like the shape. Cute, in a make-me-think-of-bacon kind of way!

Kindly,

Lee

-- "...in his brain, which is as dry as the remainder biscuit after a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd with observation, the which he vents in mangled forms." --Shakespeare, "As You Like It"