I read an article in FWW where a guy used homemade long tool rests. He got sick of moving his tool rest 12” at a time across long spindles.
It occurs to me that if I wanted to make a lot of simple spindles, I could make a tool rest curved to match the desired profile. I want to make a bunch of sort of barrel shaped spindles. Some are 16” and some 30”. I could easily make a matching tool rest for each.