I would have to agree... There are 1000 ways to skin this cat and some might even be helped out with some chemical enhancement !!!

Might take a couple of tries to get the indexing right this way but I think that would be the case in most setups - Even in a lathe the "backlash" would come into play and would probably take a couple of attempts to get it right... Brass (especially the free machining type your getting) will be easy to work with in this instance.