The best Dutch machinists that I&#x27;m aware of (when it comes to precision) are located in a tiny little village in the south of Groningen, about 2 km from the German border. It&#x27;s as out-of-the-way as it gets.<p>The problem why they searched all over Europe is that it wasn&#x27;t just the accuracy, it was the part size combined with the accuracy. Making small parts with a lot of precision is relatively easy if you&#x27;re willing to discard a whole pile of them after QA. Making big parts with any precision at all is tremendously hard (because the piece warms up as it is being worked and large pieces will expand quite a bit as they warm up) and discarding a single piece is going to be ridiculously expensive.