Wing, you are right on the money, the smallest grit they had was something like 120! I did find a roll of 240 cloth back 1" wide for a table top belt sander, I think there is like 50' on it; got it at Harbor Freight for a few bucks. I tried it last night and it worked great.
Plantman, thanks the source suggestion. Also, I didn't think of sanding without the power. I have spot sanded some indents without power but didn't think of doing the whole thing.
I took someone's suggestion on tyring to get as smooth as you can with your tool. When I was done the turning, I sharpened my chisel with my 800 grit waterstone and got a good edge and lightly turned a little and it smoothed out the blank nicely. Then, I used a Scotch Brite pad with very little pressure with the blank spinning to get rid of the grain fuzz.
Then I removed the blank and applied a super thin formula CA to one half, which absorbs right in to the wood and then wiped the excess off really smooth, stood it up on the untreated end and after top half cured, applied the CA to the other.
After both sides are dry, I put on the lathe and smoothed out the slight roughness caused by the CA raising grain with the Scotch Brite pad. Then I put some wood dust from turning the blanks on the pad and raised the speed and buffed out. These are the best looking blanks I've done so far. Next, I'll apply some coats of the WTF from Ed to finish it off.
Thanks,
Kirk