On 6 Aug 2007 12:32:28 GMT, Scott Seidman
wrote:

wrote in news:lqq7b3t8vtds44jt73alhjh2o4or93evqu@
4ax.com:

If you want to lathe a grip, make a
new one on a mandrel and install it on the rod. Hey, as always, YMMV.



Why would you give up a tight ring-by-ring custom fit?

And as a further aside, doing the sanding on a mandrel would allow the
use of simpler, and thus, a wider variety of wood-turning lathes because
speed and chucking/centering/"holding" methods wouldn't be nearly the
issue it would be with a rod section, finished or not.

TC,
R