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Doing it by hand with sandpaper is a nonstarter.
Also I don’t have a lathe :-/
If they’re fairly short, you could make a v block jig and drive it with a drill, and use a chisel on the side you want to round over. There’s a vid/gif I saw recently of a gentleman doing it to make the dowels themselves after knocking the corners down with a hand plane
Perhaps a cup bur? Be careful!
Could you use a jig to hold the piece vertically and clamp to keep from rotating, with the to be rounded part pointing down and a router table with roundover bit?
I was thinking horizontally. I’d hesitate to do it vertically since gravity would be pulling the stock into the bit. If anything went wrong it’s not exactly fail-safe.
A 1/2" dowel might fit in the shank of a standard hand drill… If so, I’d use the dowel in the hand drill and would round off the other end against a belt or oscillating sander, basically.