Our next meeting, Thursday October 9, will be a lecture and workshop on suiseki. I have about 18 suitable stones that I will bring for club members. These all have cut bottoms, which will make the daiza carving much easier. The largest of these stones measures about 5.5 inches, and the smallest about half this size. What I would like you to bring is a piece of scrap lumber (walnut, maple, mahagony, would be good; oak not so good; pine okay if that is all you have) that measures no smaller than 5×5 inches, 3/4 inch thick, for the base of the stone.