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bjrogg:
Thanks Eric. I didn't get a chance to measure it but approximately 2 1/2'.
I'm not home now but I will get back to you on that. I was thinking the same about the thread. It is  crude in some ways. Looks like most of it was whittled with a knife. Yet the pegs seem pretty purposely spaced
Bjrogg

Eric Krewson:
So far they say it might be a unfinished lead lap. You would put the string end in the barrel and pour lead in the barrel, the nails would keep the lead from coming off the rod. The lead lap would be withdrawn from the barrel, coated with valve grinding compound and run back and forth in the barrel to smooth up the rifling.

Hawkdancer:
Makes sense, especially if the pins match the rifling.  The grinding compound may have been graphite.
Hawkdancer

Eric Krewson:
The pins wouldn't come close to the rifling, a proper lap is all lead touching barrel interior.

A rifling cutter would look like this;

Hawkdancer:
AHAA!  The pins merely support the lead pour which matches the rifling?  Comes the dawn! ::). I was also trying to think of another old time lapping compound, remembered it about 2:00 am, motor mica, it was!  I put a bit in my brass tumbler now and then.
Hawkdancer

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