« Reply #9 on: March 01, 2014, 03:39 AM »
Think about it. Ipe is 3 to 10 times the hardness of maple. Maple is a hard enough to get any penetration, Ipe is a dog. I'm not the expert here, but solid coatings are way more difficult to deal witrh in maintenance than an annual oil application I would think.
Just sayin' I've yet to read that anything other than a specific oil for Ipe is anything that should be used every year or two depending on specific wera/tear/sunlight issues. Please somebody who TRULY knows their SHEET rhyme in please. I'd like to know a bonafide truth as well. So far what I've read numerous times seems to say that oil is the way to deal with Ipe properly versus actaul coatings.

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