The Home Machinist!

Seal the MDF with Cyanoacrylate.

After taking out a second mortgage.

Start with a piece larger than you need. Clamp it down flat on areas outside of the part footprint. Reduce the thickness without machining your clamps. Machine the inclined surface before contouring. When contouring leave thin webs every so often to keep the part from braking off. Cut the webs at th...

The way I would do it is to drill 7/16 holes at 1/2" center to near depth or through. Then clean up with a 1/2" end mill.
2 reasons: my mill is not very rigid, I can resharpen drill bits but not end mills.

Personally I like the better feeling of control of a fixed handle on my machines. Most handles are rarely spun so fast to bother, and those that are are motorized on my mill (X and Z). Cranks that one spin fast or must put some muscle behind can certainly benefit

Planning your operations will be time well invested. I follow the same plan outlined by SteveM. A spreadsheet is great to calculate the dimension that are important to you when machining. Sometimes the drawing dimensions can be either unimportant, unpractical, not useful, referenced from the wrong ...

The first crash, and it will happen, will wipe out all the time saved.
Some tiny issue develops on machine No3, your mind become focused on the issue, machine No1 and No2 crash.
How many times I started a water hose into a container only to overflow it doing something else.

Why buy something you can make for twice the cost?

Isn't that the Home Machinist's credo?

Seems to me a huge complication for nothing.
I have used exactly Mgicniner approach and worked every time.
The only time a split bushing may be required is when the part sides number is incompatible with the collett slits and the part runs off center.

Would that be that 'industrial machine pink' that we all admire so much?

In Italy we have a name for a wide range of reddish pink, it loosely translate as "Drunken's Upchuck"

But, of course Different strokes for different folks, what float your boat.

As I have written here before, one of my big mistakes was acquiring a 16" Kelly Shaper. The only thing wrong I see with that shaper is the color. :lol: I like shapers, if only for sentimental reasons. We had one in shop 7th and 8th grade, and the teacher let me work on it doing some special project.

$300 to replace an injection wiring chewed up by some critter, that left a stash of acorns tumbling between the hood sheet metal every time I lift it. Warranty does not cover.

Do you now of any repellent for rodents. Trapping under the hood is not really practical.

Proud owner of 108 flashlights

That is just about the right number to overpower my wife "fetish" for flashlights.
She keep lifting them from the places I like to have them and stash them where I can never find them.