I'm going to try to explain what I need to do. I'm turning rolling pins with tapering ends. I turn them as small as possible, lets say 1/2" on the ends. Sand and wax the piece, remove from the lathe, chop off the sacrificial, chunky ends. I'm left with 1/2" blunt ends that I sand with ROS and hand sand. I've tried using a pneumatic drum sander, disc sander and belt sanders as well. I'd like to speed up this step by finding an appropriate tool or a better method. My turning and finishing go well but the hand finishing the ends has got to improve. I imagine a large pencil sharpener (very large) or a burr grinder that is hollow that I could insert my piece to rough the end to basic shape. I don't mind finishing a bit by hand if necessary but I'd like to figure out a better way to shape the ends to a nice rounded tip. I've tried searching various things but so far I've been stumped. Any ideas? Photo is a finished example.