Using Maple Butcher Block Under a Turntable

@geoffkait  What golden rule of cones.  Oh, no.  I didn't know!!   Please don't call the cone police!  Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!  ;-)

I didn't want to put threaded inserts into the maple bb.  My thin and weak excuse is that I didn't want to risk damage to the bb.  The real reason is that I was too lazy to drill out holes for the inserts.  Figured it would be OK.  The Stillpoint cones are point-up, BearClaws are solid brass and point-up.  

Sad...……..

The thing with cones is they’re rather *directional* and should always be points down. When they are points down they allow energy to *exit* the system and disallow energy to come up into the system, relatively speaking. This is also why the specific material of the cone and the shape of the cone are also important. What you want this very rapid energy transfer as well as seismic energy blocking.

I have my Thorens 124 with glued-on ebony wood spikes sitting on a 1" maple butcher block which sits on spikes attached to wall shelf bolted to a stud in the wall. It allows me to use the classic Swiss Beachwood plinth with no mushrooms instead of some massive thing and it just sounds and looks awesome.

Does any one set their  TT spikes directly on the maple block?