The Teres wood platter is an exceptional idea and a real world product, but it is several inches thick and very heavily finished to negate any possible problem with warpage. Probably that has a better chance of success than would a much thinner wooden mat, but it's certainly not crazy to try it. The temptation would be to use a hardwood to avoid warpage, but that might result in a "hard" sound. Like I said, the choice of wood species will make a great difference in the outcome, in my opinion. The thing is, if you make the mat yourself with your own hands, you're gonna love it. Be careful of expectation bias. I had a machinist make me a pure copper mat for my Kenwood L07D, to replace the OEM stainless steel "platter sheet" (a mat by another name), and of course, I love it.