No doubt the folks at arbor fab have a great product! I made this in an attempt to save a few bucks using what was lying around and trying to fly under the radar as the Mrs started noticing the new smoker parts showing up...and asking abouts costs as I got it back into working orderThats great if you can make one yourself and save a few bucks, Nice job.. The minion seemed to work well for me. Also the charcoal grate worked awesome. I went back out last night to clean out the ash and it did a great job of just letting the fine ash fall through. No big chunks got wasted at all.. It was just all fine dust at the bottom