On Sat, 12 Nov 2016 10:54:41 -0500
"G. Ross" wrote:

Yesterday I suddenly remembered the power hand planer which I bought
for a single job years ago. Dug it out and it buzzed the corners
down in a jiffy, right on the lathe. Duh!! After 15 years of

used a sawzall once for this and then when the closest thing was a
good old chisel i used that

now wonder if a hand planer would work for roughing out the blank
maybe with the lathe on low rpm it might work