I am, yes. One of the issues I have is that the precut stems never seem to have a very flat surface to begin with (little casting edges and things), and if you start attacking them with sand paper you might make it slightly better, but it's still far from a perfectly flat surface, which causes some parts of the stem face to make contact with the shank face just a HAIR before the other parts, creating tiny light cracks. I'm trying to think of ways to combat this, but without some type of turning tool, like a wood lathe or metal lathe, I'm not sure how to do that. The Pimo tool is pretty nice for fitting the tenons, but it lacks the facing capabilities of a lathe. I guess that's what you get when you spend $69 instead of $1200. I've been visiting tooling sites and drooling on my computer screen as I
![Shocked :shock:](./images/smilies/icon_eek.gif)
at the 9x20 metal lathes.
One day, my sweet metal lathe, one day...