Joel, forum won't let me reply to your "announcement", so here is a post/reply.
I have some ipe here. Since no one else has answered I'll clamp a few pieces down and try the Mafell and the Makita on them.
I'm predicting tough, dense fiber, with dusty chips. I'll score across the grain. Wonder what the scent of ipe is?
When I was a kid living in the jungle (tropical rainforest) of Sumatra there was a tree that bore edible nuts that had a very distinctive scent. Many years later, when in my 20s, I smelled the identical scent when chainsawing black walnut here in NY and rubbing husks off the walnuts to make dye. The prolific nut tress in Indonesia are not ipe, I did identify them once. Try to recall soon. Ipe is from South America, right?
I remember we used greenheart from S Amer to support some swimming docks in Lake Katonah in NY where I went to HS. Our neighbor worked for Montheath, a lumber importer in the Bronx. Greenheart is rot resistant, and denser than water so it sunk, right down there with the snapping turtles and leeches and muck. helped us swim faster....
Steve