Ya I have been letting the roughing tools leave zero stock on the Z... they seems to leave as nice a bottom finish as any of my "finishers".
As for the vise jaw conversation... I think I will order up a batch of stock to build myself some. I need to get in the habit of more jaws and less bolt up fixturing. Hell.. would have saved me last night when I brain fart and didnt retract my 7/8 rougher enough to clear the fixturing hardware. It cut through it but chipped the heck out of the bottom 1/4" of the tool. $125 bye bye.
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