"Looking toward a 154mm f2250 wooden refractor, so the mount will have to be fairly substantial..."
If that's not a typo, great understatement on the mount! Fairly sure you'll have to have aviation lights on top though which may spoil things a little.
If you have the parts already, I'd think about making up a mockup pole, with weights attached to match the parts in roughly the right position. You can get a feel for where the balance is and how much/where the clearance you need on the mount/scope etc.
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