Make a rectangle box with no top, rabbit top of sides, drill a hole in the center of each end. Take square wood, cut to length, find the center of each end and drill small hole. Put square wood in box and screw in one end tightly enough that wood still turns but does not move. The other end, screw in table leg holder bolt and attach crank handle to threaded end. Make base for router to ride in rabbits on top of box. Fit router with straight bottom cutting bit. turn crank slowly while moving router slowly from one end to the other, return router to other end, drop bit a little and repeat. After a few passes square wood is round and smooth, no 300 MPH spinny machine or wood beaters required.
I'm thinking through a way to make adjustable length box, templates and router base to make duplicate spindles. Thinking of evenly spaced dado's in box sides to move one box end to any length, hardboard templates attached to box sides and a length of round rod or something made of wood attached to router base bottom to ride on top of templates, will it work? I don't know... but hey I got this far didn't I?
I'm not sharing pics either because I cobbled it together on a whim to see if it would work - it does and it looks
real bad :roll:
Lathe just say NO :gar-La;