parting tool

My spouse wants me to cut down a few old sofa feet. She wants to slice off part of the feet and use the slices as new feet for our ottoman. Initially I thought about mounting them to a board and slicing them on the bandsaw. The problem is getting a perfect straight cut, plus the bandsaw marks...

I have made a bunch of pens and wondered that after turning to round, if anyone used a 1/4 inch parting tool to take off the majority of material and then turn to dimension? May not be any faster than using a roughing gouge. Curious.

I got this blank at the Georgia symposium in September. I drilled and installed tubes in blanks for Slim Line pens. When I got ready to put them on the pen mill, I saw that the end of one of the blanks had a rough finish with a pocket of nothingness. Should have inspected it and trimmed it...