sorry guys - you're right. 
It was just an information.. nothing more. 
Don't want to bash your nice work. 

You and me both!  I am going to do one more prototype run of the VR block, and then once its has been completed to my satisfaction, then I will make the finished block.

thats enough to drive someone nuts. lol
 
looks awesome so far man. 

let us know how it goes!

Nate,
 
Well the kids are gone, the two Captains and the house is back to normal. I just wanted to tell you Merry Christmas too and I am sorry it is late and I hope the New Year goes well too.
   As for your Master Piece it is awesome! I am glad We hooked up for this block build because this going to be wicked. I bet the new Home made CNC will make the blocks look wild cool and I still think you should do a shallow cut and put FTW by Nate Man Do on my block.
Joe

Now I can resume this block.  I have been down for practically 2 months.  No block has ever (and will ever) take this long.  I was up till 4 am trying to machine a surface plate or "jig" to be used for this block.  Broke out some of my good scrap stuff. 
 
Some pics will be posted over the next few days.

Although they are a day late, pics a promised:

Here is the finished tool plate.  The advantages of having a dedicated tool plate WITH REFERENCE EDGES gives me something I never had before: repeatability!
Now I can align either the left, bottom, or right sides of that plate with the travel of the machine, then reference the bottom and left edges and I can now make these to within 0.0005" accuracy & repeatability.  Btw, guess who learned how to engrave txt (sorta).  Figured I would test it out on the plate. 
 
I originally designed the plate for use with 1/2" bolts to hold it to the table, but I didn't have any, but I had some M6 screws, so they worked like a charm.  They are pretty close to 1/4-20 screws.  More then enough to hole a simple plate down.
 
Test fitting all the holes with my last prototype.

All holes line up perfectly, and when using pan head type screws it sort of self centers the work piece to the holes.
 
 
Topside:

Believe it or not, thats not sepia tone, its 2 100W flood lights. Not sure why it looks like that but whatever-its a cell cam.  Another perfect fit regardless.  There are some 20+ holes for this block for the various re-positioning to mill out different sections of each side.
 
Still have the holes for the actual chipset block to drill and tap into the plate, but that's much easier. since there isn't much repositioning with that piece, and less holes. 

Its 2:20 am EST.  Can't see anymore.  However...  I have something to show you guys in the AM.
 
I hope your subscribed ... 

Before I post the pictures, remember this picture from before the rebuild:

You will see the results of the improvements.

Yea, its more fun like that.  Standby, attaching now.

I much prefer the three spoke grille :) looks sexy as hell and would look even better imo if you had a matching grille on top of the fan too ^^

Definitely, with a grille it doesn't need to be thick and heavy duty, just good looking really lol

I smell copper cutting....

Nate,
 Wow, That  beats what sidewinder has and you were the first no matter what they say. I still think they stole your ideas off the post. I LIKE!