Sometimes A Single Job Cost More In Tooling Than Materials or Machine Time

I feel your pain . I bought a piece of delrin and a big chunk of aluminum to fabricate a nut for the X axis on my mill , then spent more for the piece of aluminum bronze that ended up being the solution to my problem . But that's OK , I'll end up using that stock on another project ... and you'll likely find another project that needs that reamer .

VB&G is open , shots of top shelf on me .

Let me think about that a second.... yeah Bigfoot cracked open the only collectible I had in the fridge. You should be fine with whatever you find in there.

I ain't too picky , though I prefer a decent straight bourbon sour mash whiskey ... I have a particular fondness for Ezra Brooks 99 .

In other news from The Holler , my across the road neighbor has had about 50-60 trees knocked down by a big-ass excavator to make room for a shop and a yard for his wife . And for helping clean up the mess I have been offered as much of the designated firewood trees (large diameter trees are destined for the sawmill) as I want . They're stacked up ready to process ... and this beats the hell out of harvesting from my own woods - from a labor perspective .

I was a fan of the original Pendelton 1910 Rye with the painted bottles. I think it was a very popular but limited run, because it wasn't available for a while. Than it was again, but with a paper label. It didn't have that same almost buttery smoothness. It was okay, but not as good. Then they came back out with the painted bottles, and think they improved it, but its still not the same. I'm not much of a bourbon drinker, but I might have some Maker's Mark around still. Maybe even some of the Pendelton bourbon, and there is probably a bottle of jack gather dust behind the ol' lady's tequila collection.

Reminds me. I finally took the bottle of Tepa out of the freezer last year. The one I used to keep in there for Coyote. Its been a long time since he passed, but every time I opened the freezer that bottle reminded me of that crazy biker.

Anyway, I almost certainly have some Pendleton 1910 and some High West Rye atleast.