Yeah I have had my head down focusing on working since the first of March, but I have got a bit done. The steel clamp items came back from the heat treaters on Monday and thankfully all was well so once I get this run of stone switchplates done I can get back to working on the slide guides. I am just coming back out to my shop for a few hours to model up the knob fixtures so I know how long the screws are that I need to order to hold the parts in the fixture for the second op, details, details. All of the aluminum bars needed to make the parts is on hand so it is down to spending the time finishing the fixtures, programming to make the parts and then making them.
Since you are a programmer and machinist you may be interested in the clamps and stops I am making to hold the parts. They are hopefuly a new product I will be making to sell but if that doesn't work out I still need several hundered in the next few months for the fixtures I need to make for a bunch of new parts I have in mind, such as Blues idea of a Sharpmaker that uses EP mounted stones and the aluminum backs for my upcoming bench stones. Here is a photo, part on the right is an aluminum shell for the second op parts. This is my take on the wedge clamps that Miteebite sells as Uniforce. Over the last 20 years I have always wanted to make some changes so a few years ago I started to, here is kinda the culmination with a few rough edges left.