Timmy:
I am neither a machinist nor a woodworker. But it seems to me that if you spent your hours of time on the first set up, copying a finished stock, then cut your first copy as a pattern, but leaving the tail of the stock and the end of the forestock unfinished, and squared off to the same dimension as the blank you started from then, you could quite easily load up the next blank, and after duplicating it from the pattern, hand finish both ends of the copy. It would sure make set up time quicker, if it isn't too difficult to finish off the ends of the duplicated stock the "old fashioned" way.