Combo cleaning rod and oiler

[lugerholsterrepair]

Gentlemen, I admit I am not aware of every type of rod made but I have taken pains to study these over many years.
These rods were firmly affixed to the barrels..there is no reason for them to be screwed in. The screwed in type are known fakes and as such they break off very easily at the threaded end. This is NOT the type of junk the Germans would make or did make.

Again..there is no reason for them to be screwed in. If it were to become unscrewed in normal use it could and would.. slip out of the rod sleeve and be lost.
They break off very easily and a second reason this is a bad engineering solution to a problem that dosen't exist.

The second problem I see with this rod is the lack of knurling on the end cap. This spiraled end cap could concieveably slice your fingers if it were stuck with this type of milling on it.
The crosshatching found on original rods was the norm for the times these were made. This was an era of NO shortcuts and hundreds of thousands of machine tools had the crosshatching to better the grip on them. What other tool have you ever seen that has this spiral cut besides these fake rods? None...Because it's so far out of the norm to be unheard of.
As for the stamp on the end...Many items are stamped with spurious stamps. When you look at the whole picture you have to come to the conclusion that this must be one...

Jerry Burney