John Lawson wrote on Sun, Jul 27, 2008 08:21 PM UTC:
A variantist who happened to have a wood lathe:
http://www.pennstateind.com/store/TCLPRO.html
with a duplicator:
http://www.pennstateind.com/store/CML-DUPU.html
could make repetitive cylindrical shapes from templates is quantities of
dozens for cost of materials plus time. They wouldn't be fancy, but the
hard part would be designing the profiles. Now all you need is a
variantist who is also a turner.