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Yes sir. I chucked them in the little lathe and parted them off about 1.5" shorter.

I made a home made CNC plasma table about 4 years ago. I can remove the torch head and mount a router in it's place, load a different Mach profile and use it as a 2.5D router/mill. I used that to make a mold out of MDF, then layed it up with carbon fiber and epoxy in a visquene envelope and hooked my A/C vacuum pump to it, (with a catch can of course).

It's not absolute best practice for carbon fiber parts but works OK for this. Truth is there's way more epoxy than needed for max strength and min weight. A thinner vacuum infusion resin with proper release and breather ply would be better, but I work with what I have.