I finished this shift lever up. Still working on those feeds and speeds for the steep and shallow, but the back side turned out really nice.

I roughed at .5" DOC, .003" fpt, at 54 ipm with a carbide 3 flute end mill. Still not chatter, all is well. The end mill is pretty tuckered out too. It has about 1 decent cutting edge left, one was knocked off on a clamp (separate project), the other was chipped off when I dropped the end mill and tool holder. All the finishing was done with a 2 flute 3/8 cabride ball end. I ran that at 36 ipm.

My Bellevile arrangement ended up using two different stiffness washers to form a progressive stack. That allows me to tighten the drawbar to where the majority of the washers are basically flat when the tool is release, but the stiff set allow a bit of over travel, hopefully preventing damage to the actuator, mounts, drawbar lever. My stack is also fairly large, I'm using 24 of one time and six of the other.