I Found Less-Expensive Aluminum Radius Blocks

I was perusing Philadelphia Luthier Tools' site and noticed that they now carry precision-milled aluminum radius sanding blocks that are a lot less than StewMac! The 20" ones are about $80, while the shorter 8" ones are $45. Although it's still not cheap, that's almost half the cost of StewMac's versions.

I have not tried these nor seen them in person so I have no idea about their quality. PLT is good people though, so I'd imagine they're quality beams. I just figured I'd post the link since someone was asking about alu radius beams a couple weeks back. If you want to level frets with a radius beam, these will be much more consistent and accurate than the wooden ones.

EDIT: it would probably help if I actually added the links. Here's the long one and here's the short size. Looks like they're available in most common radii from 7.25" up to 20".