[MrForbes]

Like Don, we've had a manual mill in the fab shop we use for a few years, and have not touched it the past two years. We've use the lathe more each year.

The way you get around not having a mill, is to actually design the parts. Instead of whittling a piece of some weird shape out of a rectangular block, you design the part to be made with a minimum of cutting, using stock that is readily available (such as using angle, channel, strap, flat sheet) and do a few simple operations such as cutting, drilling, and bending.