I am looking for guidance on how to most efficiently and accurately drill a hole through a 10 inch long blank. I am making about a dozen rolling pins for Christmas gifts. The plan I have calls for drilling a hole all the way through the body for a 5/16" steel rod to which handles are epoxied on each end. I am thinking I need to drill this on the lathe, before roughing the blanks using either a extra long bit in a jacob's chuck in the tailstock, or drilling shorter holes from each end, hoping they meet in the middle. My blanks are pretty close to the finished size of 2" diameter, so I don't have much room for error if the hole is off center. Any thoughts on how to set this up to improve accuracy, or a better way to do it? Your thoughts welcome.
Thanks
Stan