[Wafles]

You definitely don't want to use just plywood. It's really shitty and really rough.

I used two layers, one layer of MFD (Medium Density Fibreboard - basically the stuff cheap-ish furniture is made out of) and one layer of OSB (Oriented Strand Board, basically shitty plywood). MFD was 3/4" and OSB was 1/2" giving a total base width of 1 1/4". I used a staple gun and some high strength wood glue to bond them together. MFD is basically really heavy and really smooth but it doesn't necesarily make for a good base to attach the railing to, but that combined with the OSB gives me a bit more strength (the bar basically is attached via some T-nuts and screws that go through the whole base this way).

Obviously you can sub OSB for some higher quality plywood, I just happened to have a half sheet of OSB laying around that I could use for this so I saved $10 lol...

I'll try flat footed but I don't even know how to play flat-footed lol, I'll make another post tomorrow after I play or something.