I like the idea of a nc'ed prop BUT in an ideal world it is the best solution. As someone who actually had a machine shop and was killed by the "digitizing" thing, the work will go overseas once that is done. Anyone with a co-ordinate machine can digitize; punch the button and you can have the code spit out the other end and onto your nc. No matter what you think you know about your product when some overseas company puts up an nc prop on Ebay your business is going in the shitter. Shops in the Phillipines were selling a piece on our shores for less than I could buy aluminum by the pound, before I touched it. If the Grose's are prop people and can do what Kindsvater or the other know and can do something is saved. If not hello foreign props. "Be careful what you wish for" means more today than ever.