mahoney,
I understand where you are coming from. However, I have to be very careful where I am going to! If I wanted to offer you a 3x123, I need to buy 500 of them. Now I wouldn't mind having a couple but I sure don't need 499 of the dang things; forget the fact that I can't afford them. There are and will be some Aleph parts around in HA-Nat but don't count on a perfect or even close color match with other HA-Nat parts. Hard anodize is first and foremost a functional plating and not a cosmetic plating. Grain and other irregularities will show up and tints will vary significantly from batch to batch.