I have no desire to produce a Peripheral Frame using a Resin Impregnated Densified Wood Board to be used on a Belt Drive TT.
Individuals I know who know the cost of the Periphery Frame produced as the Bedrok and who both know the LP 12 very well, with access to the TT and are quite capable of producing a Peripheral Frame for the TT, using either of the methods made known in my earlier post using a Resin Impregnated Densified Wood Board have not expressed a interest in producing a design to be an alternative option from their own resource of stored Densified Wood Board, even with the notion that a mark up on the materials as finished design at a 1000% will still be half price to what it would be intended to substitute.
In relation to the use of Densified Wood, Linn are quite late to the Party.
In relation to a Sub Chassis being produced in a Densified Wood, I can only assume if a Brand dedicated to selling a Bespoke Item produced from a particular grade of Aluminum was to produce a replacement Item for such a part in a Densified Wood and then offered it for sale at a 50% + Mark Up on the existing price, this would be the evidence needed to suggest other material is more suitable for a structural purpose than Aluminium.
There is information to be found within the Gon and outside of the Gon, to supply convincing evidence a Densified Wood is a suitable substitute for Metals. With the added bonus of the intrinsic properties belonging to the Densified Wood being much more attractive for managing energies that are unwanted in a audio device such as a TT.
I would suggest a Linn LP 12 owner adopts the usage of a Sub Plinth produced from a 25mm Thick Densified Wood Board, which will be acquired between £100 - £200 if prudently sourced.
Using the Densified Wood Sub Plinth in conjunction with LP 12 will supply a proportion of the benefits achievable by the adding a Bedrok Peripheral Frame. Both will be parity for having the desirable intrinsic properties for improved managing of transferred ambient energies. The unknown is how much a Densified Wood Sub Plinth is able to come close to adding the same benefit achieved from adding the Peripheral Frame. My experiences if the using the material as a Sub Plinth strongly suggests there will be no discernible difference to be discovered, each will offer almost identical benefits through adopting the material type.
Additionally if the Densified Wood Sub Plinth is adopted to be used in conjunction with the LP 12. Careful selection of Footers as the separators most likely to add to overall new quality of performance on offer, furthering the benefits and produce something that shares similar improvement to the alternate bases that can be adopted. The added footers being capable to offer up very similar properties, as if adding the Trampolin Base.