Looking good! When Don sees that setup, he's going to award you the same title he gave me some time ago- - - -"Cobble-Ologist"! Or like Smokey Yunick used to claim- - - -"It ain't cheatin' unless you get caught!" When I'm drilling and/or reaming one end of a long piece of stock. I loosen the tailstock clamp slightly, wrap a big bungee cord around the carriage and the tailstock, and let the rear center stay in the end of the workpiece as I feed it over the cutting tool in the chuck.. It adds a little stability to the cut.

Jerry

"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!