Well here is the first thing I made. My Dad had some piece of metal and I thought I'd try to remake it. I thought I did okay except that I couldn't find out how to round the rectangle.
This is the kind of stuff we did at tech school when being a machinist was fun and not a job I emailed them about opening a franchise in Dalls/Ft. Worth...no reply. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObwRn8oIQEc