Mike, no we hope you don't run out of questions. Thats what keeps this place going. Thats a nice waffle iron. From a distance the handle inserts look like wood. The closer pictures show the handles better, and its still hard to tell. If you say they are iron or metal you should know, but I have never seen or heard tell of a waffle iron having such handles. Those handles look to me like somebody put them on themselves and sure don't look factory. The whole idea of wood or alaskan handles was so the heat would not go through the handle to the user, so I don't think there is anyway a factory would have put them on. Thats my opinion anyway, for what its worth.
