V-block Question.

I like any shop made tooling, especially precision tooling. If you're making a pair, needles to say they have to be matched. Getting both blocks identical will be tough, but you can finish them as one unit to help that along. Are you grinding the surfaces after milling?

A little late, but had you started with a bar twice the length of the finished product, plus a little for sawing and cleanup, you chances of making a well matched pair would be much better.

Thanks for the replies. I must admit, the more I'm working on this project and the more advice I get, the more I realize the actual complexity of making a v-block.
I think I should have the block surface grinded, after I've squared it, just to get it 100% true, or as close to that as possible. It should also have much better finished surfaces, I guess? Something that I did notice, and which bothers me somewhat, is that the milled surfaces are very slightly concave in thew middle. If I lay my machinist square over them, I slight bit of lights filters through right in the middle, along the length of the milled surfaces.

I though about doing a longer workpiece and then splitting it in two afterwards and it could probably still be done, as this block is 70mm long.