There is a simple solution to your problem. Grab the guns, hunting dog, (wife and kids operational) and run for the border. After all 12,000,000 Mexican can't be wrong.

All kidding aside, you did a vary find job from the pictures, makes you wonder how the old fellows swamped the ribs?

CnC has it plus and a lot of minuses, I say that as one who owns an nc mill. The cost of programing and time to do a programme is a real down side. The one real plus is the ball screws, when you run it in manual (no reference to the Mexicans).

I see that the forend was not such an issue for you after all. Which means I don't want to mess with it again for a good long while?