Hi,
I am planning on building a garden gate, and would appreciate your thoughts on the acceptability of using cedar as the core material for the major sections and facing the cedar cores with Ipe. Building the entire gate from Ipe is cost prohibitive, but I would like to have something harder wearing and nicer looking than using cedar alone. A solid ipe gate would also be much heavier.
Any major downsides to this approach?
Thanks a lot,
Joe H.