This is what I have decided to use as ivory bases.Pictured is one of two alike.This is hardwood from Zim.
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Should look nice, just make sure they don't wobble and fall over, need a good flat floor surface.

How are you going to fasten the tusks to the bases?

I was thinking of drilling a hole through the base then setting a long bolt in the base of the tusk with epoxy.

I got word that a 10mm hole has already been drilled all the way through so a bolt can be put through.

Well George ...
I've got to say that wood is pretty cool.
Must have taken a LOT of work to polish and sand that up.
Post the end result. It's hard to see in context how it may look with an actual tusk.

I asked my Ph if he had any ideas about ivory bases.I had asked him what he thought about using one of those wooden tree trunk dugouts villagers use to pound maize in.While in Moz hunting he spotted a huge piece of lead wood in front of a village by the road that villagers used to sit on.We thought about buying it and using it for a large ivory base.It would be extremely heavy and it might be difficult for him to get across the border into Zim.He said lead wood that size was rare.There was no doubt it would look nice however, polished and mirror like.We decided against it and then thought about using teak.He had a couple made but they were screwed up by the maker.In the end we decided on using hardwood.

I will try to use a cedar 4x4 and cedar wood shims instead of epoxy or expanding foam to fill in the tusk cavity.I picked up some material today.
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