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Any furniture maker should be able to do that - doubt you'll find one
off the shelf without paying Notting Hill prices though. It's saw and
hand work to round it, with a rounding plane, rather than lathe turning.
Any turner can knock up the end finials and the supports though.
Price also depends a bit on how long you want it, and whether you mind a
central support. I certainly don't keep 2" oak boards on hand in the
full length for the longest of curtain poles, and sawing it down from
timber-framing sizes (6 inch squares and upwards) would be a bit
wasteful. 6' in a span is easy, longer than that might want a bit of
carpentry to join two lengths.
Personally I'd do it in ash, because it's stronger and the figure is
identical to oak from any more than a few feet away. Staining is fine if
it's just to change colour, but you need to have underlying figure
that's from the same sort of tree.