Many of us are customers of Little Mahchine Shop. LMS is hving an open house on 20 October at their facility in Pasadena, CA. All the details are here...
http://www.littlemachineshop.com/openhouseIf you live in the Los Angeles basin, stop in. Members of SCHSM, the Southern California Home Shop Machinists, including me, will be showing some of our projects. I enjoyed the get together last year and expect this year's meeting to be fun as well.
Standard disclaimer - I'm only a customer of LMS.