I want to buy a surface plate, maybe 12" x 12" and I can either find really expensive ones with free shipping, or really cheap ones where the shipping is twice the cost of the plate.
I'm about 85 miles from a Grizzly showroom in Bellingham, WA, would it be worth a drive to pick one of theirs up? How is the quality of the cheap surface plates?
Are all grade B's the same?