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There's a guy over at chiptalk.net that did a reveiw on one of these, I think its called a "Pit Boss" table. Any way he seemed pretty happy with it. Cost me $300 to build a decent one so I'd say you got off light, be sure to look into refelting it though.

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Thanks for the info -- I checked it out on chiptalk (three cheers for Ten!), but it's not quite the same table based on the pictures and the size (mine is 84" versus 44"). The rail on "mine" also looks a little better, but who knows? And re-felting is probably the rule with a cheaper table.

I'll be sure to post a review when I get the table and have played with it for a while.

And as for getting off cheap -- even if it is a piece of sh*t, it's gotta be ok. A plain old 6' folding table from Wal-Mart costs about $60 as I remember (I use them for big BBQs and such). And I'm a total donk when it comes to building things, so I could never have done it myself. I'm sure your table is SO much nicer than anything one could buy for even $500!