I'll keep everyone posted. At this time the holidays are slowing me down but I'm still hard at work. I should be getting my maple burl any day now and I'll make a few samples with that. I also have a couple more aluminum face plates nearly finished (require polishing) so I'll post some photos once they are done. The great news is that it looks like I may have found a machine shop that can cut 50-100 of the aluminum face plates for me at a fairly decent price.

I'll keep you posted.