"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
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If you needed to put a hemisperical end on a bunch of 1/4" stainless
dowels how would you tackle it? Say 400, give or take.

Probably I would just make them from scratch by running 12ft lenghts of bar
stock through a swiss machine.

Or, grind a form tool and mount on the lever cross slide of a 5c chucker.