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No experience with this specifc provider. Things to consider a

1. There is a difference in quality of Maple tops made for workbench
type applications, commercial kitchens or residential kitchens. The
main difference is a residential kitchen top of the highest quality
would (in this case) be laminated from many 96" pieces where a lower
quality slab might have finger jointed or even butt jointed pieces
included. Finally a workbench quality slab might have minimal voids as
well.

2. Is it raw wood or does it have a film finish. For a bakers table or
cutting food you will want raw wood with a mineral oil finish. Many of
the slabs available are coated with some knarly acrylic finish.

For comparison:
- The item you mentioned is coming in at $7.36 bf
- Grizzly has coated workbench quality tops for around $6.75 bf
http://www.grizzly.com/products/item...emnumber=G9916 or search on
"Workbench" on the Grizzly site.
- John Boos, the premier wood block products maker in the US has
highend, raw wood Maple tops for about $18 bf
http://www.johnboos.com/specsheets.htm