I cut, and then milled and drilled the HS-1008 left and right brackets on my trusty Little Machine Shop mini-mill (and awesome tool indeed). For the folks out there that like to send me comments about how "there's too much swarf in your photos", (amazingly enough, I actually have gotten a couple comments to that effect), you make a lot of swarf with a mill... I recommend a shop vac. The nice part about drilling on a milling machine is that if you clamp both parts to the base plate, you can setup the the drilling dimensions once and have assurance that all of the holes match and are very accurately placed. My method is to measure and mark on the bench, then install in the mill and use a DRO to center and then drill the parts.