Hi all. I've been visiting the site for a few months now, and being an mechanical engineering student, I've even started designing and collecting parts to build diy CNC mill. however, I need a part cut for the upcoming semester to use as a template while I weld together 60 identical pieces. I haven't drawn it in cad yet, but it would just be a quarter inch channel, about 1/16 inch deep, about 20 inches long, which follows a parabolic path, although in 8 straight sections. Since I only need 1, I thought I might find someone on here to do it relatively inexpensively. (Read: I'm a student on a budget!) It could be done in steel, aluminum, or maybe even wood as I'm a fairly careful welder. Cheaper=better, although precision is fairly important.
Lastly, I'm in NJ, going up to school in CT on Sunday. I'd prefer to be able to pick the part up sometime before tuesday, so anywhere along my path would be okay. (that includes all of nj and ct)