Taking a mental break from adjusting aileron travails, decided to move in another direction for awhile. these needed to done anyway.

I had a ready supply of 1-1/2" X 1-1/2" clear straight-grained oak left over from a home remodeling project. I trimmed them down to about 7/8" square on the table saw and went about borrowing my neighbor's wood lathe, and tools.

Having never operated a wood lathe, I spent an evening at YouTube University and watched a lot of video...

Started out slow to kinda get the feel of it, then just kept chipping away at it. Made three oak broomsticks. Tapered the ends of each, probably okay.

Next questions involve: Do I just simply lace them in place? Do I relieve a groove in them at each wire contact point? Install a removable insert for each? TBD

I like the idea of a groove cut in the javelins to positively nest the wires in position and then lace them fixed. I think I have an idea for a jig/sled to hold the round javelins so I can then push them thru the table saw using a dado blade. The crossing wires are not perpendicular to one another nor are the landing wires perpendicular to the javelins, so some angle setups will be necessary to cut these properly.