Any thoughts on a solid hickory platform under my tt

Folkfreak, I'm sold on Townshend's Seismic Pods, and am planning on putting them under my speakers, LP player, digital player, and tube electronics, but I gotta scrape together the scratch to do it. And the Pods ain't cheap! 

Ole school wrote,

"At some point isn’t the vibration going to travel onto the cantilever or arm just through the air?"

excellent question. The acoustic waves traveling through the air don’t matter because speakers, even with big subwoofers usually cannot generate frequencies low enough to excite the cartridge or the tonearm, which are generally designed with resonant frequencies circa 10-12 Hz. Whereas seismic type vibrations with very low frequencies, including 10-12 Hz, can easily excite the cartridge and tonearm.

Without much experimentation(some, though), I liked Mapleshade's maple over butcher block(3 inchs each, and big brass footers-used on the floor) for my amp.  I also thought the 2-inch Mapleshade maple board, with their rubber, cork, rubber footers, came close enough to my Mana table, that I don't think it's totally worth the extra money for the Mana.  This was with an Ariston RD110 turntable.

interesting ,geo 
thanks for the information,i am humbled by the level of knowledge around here.

Green wood does damp but still rings.  Dry it out ad it gets worse.

You want something that doesn't ring and that has mass to block vibration coming up from below.

I use 2" thick slabs of Brazilian granite - I used to use a large cement paving stone but was redoing the kitchen and had to buy a slab, and there was extra, so - a nice polished slab for both systems. Works very well mass loading and damping, just don't set it on a resonant base.