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LMichaels said:
Having owned Weber grills with wood slats and Broilmaster with stainless tables gimme stainless all day every day. Easier to clean, keep looking nice, much lower maint and much less headache. In the end when you just want to "use" an appliance nostalgia and looks are out the window IMO. I want decent looks sure, but overall I want ease of use and ruggedness. After all what you put on the table is the real star
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I'm actually considering doing a high level broilmaster build and looking at SS tables vs doing custom wood flip tables on factory SS hardware. This would be side tables and a front table. I'm leaning towards the wood but if you know IPE Ironwood Brazilian Walnut you know it's about as heavy as steel, fire resistant, rot resistant. This will last very long and it won't get all scratched up like SS which drives me nuts. I don't really see a better or best between the two. For me I think it just comes down to preference. I definitely will think on it and consider my options. I'm definitely not hurting for another project but looking at what's out there I can make a very nice broilmaster for a reasonable price. I'd be making it as a keeper to try out and if I decided to get rid of it I could always pass it on. I've definitely used SS tables and wood tables also and see the pros and cons.
 
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Yes if you're doing IPE then I am sure it will look wonderful and be relatively easy maint. Still not as easy as stainless but WAY easier than regular wood. Thing is (at least with my casual looking) I've never seen IPE except on the fret board of my Martin Guitar "in the wild". Now in all fairness I've not looked in specialty yards just casually in places like Menards. But still stainless always gets my main vote for ease of use. Though another material I'd like to see tried is quartz aka quartz counter material. That could be quite the product
 
LMichaels said:
Yes if you're doing IPE then I am sure it will look wonderful and be relatively easy maint. Still not as easy as stainless but WAY easier than regular wood. Thing is (at least with my casual looking) I've never seen IPE except on the fret board of my Martin Guitar "in the wild". Now in all fairness I've not looked in specialty yards just casually in places like Menards. But still stainless always gets my main vote for ease of use. Though another material I'd like to see tried is quartz aka quartz counter material. That could be quite the product
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I thought about quarts also and I think if some good thought went into it something amazing could be created. I don't disagree with you about SS my main gripe is how easy it scratches but other than that it's amazing and super high level material.
 
LMichaels said:
I've never seen IPE except on the fret board of my Martin Guitar "in the wild". Now in all fairness I've not looked in specialty yards just casually in places like Menards.
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It's very expensive but I was able to get a fairly large supply for free so that's also taken into consideration.

I keep my eye on the classifieds for multiple things and one of them is left over ipe that rich people have left over from high-end decks and fences. Sometimes they want thousands of dollars for scraps and sometimes it's free for uncut 20-footers.
 
Bruce said:
Yah, I was pretty proud of that one. I enjoyed rehabbing it, but I would not do another one for flipping. That one probably netted me a $10 per hour return on my labor and with the parts even more scarce these days, it probably would be a losing project.
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I would definitely keep that in mind especially with the older ones.

If the ignitor is a weak point maybe a shield of some sort could be fashioned to protect it. Judging by the design without having experience with them I'd be concerned about burner protection also. Maybe something could be fashioned to protect the burner also. It doesn't seem like the ceramic briquettes would give enough protection but maybe. Otherwise it looks like a solid well built grill.
 
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