My road to machining skills "or lack of" has been paved in broken carbide endmills and oversized/undersized parts trust me!

Yea i know the sound is crap, i've bought a couple of cheap mic's but didn't help much. I've finally bitten the bullet and dropped some serious cash on a proper Rode wireless mic, hopefully that fixes it! should be here next week

I did something similar in January 2009.
Nice, yea didn't think i'd be the first

I used a Mk2 MR2 stick.
I looked at these early on, but not many around so people asking a lot for them, anyway the alfa one seems to work OK and has the advantage of keeping the reverse gate