I spliced two pcs of stainless buy drilling & tapping each end and using a sawed off socket head caps crew I screwed the two pcs together. Of course they were nicely faced off first, after being tightly screwed together I Plunged the lathe tool into the shaft just a little to reduce the diameter and finish that smaller diameter for threading.
Afternthreading, I unscrewed the joint, made a nut to loosely fit the threads then screwed the shafts back together using red lactate so it wouuld come apart.
A fun project and neat little gift.