No offense, but I would not have line honed your block after you cut the caps. That's part of the line hone, if they need it. There is no way your surface plate cuts a cap like a dedicated cap cutter.
You should have asked them how long it took to clean up the caps after you cut them.
Again, no offense.
I think you misunderstood what I did, I cut them on a surface grinder and removed .0023 of material, just enough to make the surface uniform and consistent. A cap cutter may do better but being that they ones I have seen "side wheel" grind I don't see how
