• Decide what to buy,
• Buy it.

I decided to go with oil-based everything, because I like the smell and it's much cheaper.

= Wax =

This smells incredible.

= Stain =

This will be going in the gutter and on the strips. I'm thinking of staining only the outer of the edge strips and leaving the inner au naturale, for some contrast.

= Varnish =

= Plywood =

I should be able to cut the top piece of of the centre, and the bottom piece out of the corners.

• Do some test cuts of some scrap plywood with the router,
• Build a circle-cutting jig for the router,