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I think it's fine for small parts I guess.  My one question is how to handle deflection during side milling

And, unless I take a very small cut.........climb milling is hard on my little machine.I'll probably give it a try to see how my machine handles it.I think a lot of it will depend on the accuracy of my vise, and parallels.  When making parallels for my accessory lathe bar, I mic'd them, and found them to be off by about .0004 from end to end over 2" when just measuring the flat.  This proablby translates to wear in the ways, vise inaccuracy, or a spot of rust on the parallels used to do the setup.  I'm religious about removing chips from surfaces prior to setup, so I don't think it was that.  I dunno.  It doesn't seem like much, but it translates over distance, when a part is mounted against it, to a pretty healthy error depending on the overhang.I would like to see the guy at least use a machinist's square to show the block is close to square.Anyways, like I said, it deserves a try to see how it turns out.
Reply:I know that in some machine shops they use this technique on the cnc's.  I use a similar technique on small stuff; but the larger pieces I typically use either a fly cutting or a face mill.  So it is more difficult.And for larger irregular pieces i use mitee bites and tie it to the table bypassing the vice for the first two sides. Then knees or whatever it takes.Sent from my SM-G960U using TapatalkI haven't built anything I can't throw away.  Perfection is the journey.    Mac