Cleaning rod

Scubaman · 08-25-2022, 06:45 PM

Just picked up this cleaning rod to go with my 1917 and was wondering how to tell if a cleaning rod is original. Picked this up at old guns of Idaho auction.

tomaustin · 08-25-2022, 06:49 PM

are you asking original to 1917...?

Mac Cat · 08-25-2022, 07:01 PM

The business end is important - is it brass tipped ?

Neil Young · 08-25-2022, 07:13 PM

It will probably do a good job of cleaning the bore, but it is not an original cleaning rod. The wooden barrel is not the correct shape and the end of the rod at the barrel would be peened over a steel washer and the assembly would be rounded over but not polished.

Neil Young · 08-27-2022, 10:04 AM

Scubaman, I realize that that was not the response that you would have liked, but a simple acknowledgement would have been nice.

lugerholsterrepair · 08-27-2022, 01:18 PM

No good deed goes unpunished.

ithacaartist · 08-28-2022, 12:29 AM

Joined this month... There are plenty of reasons we might not make it back to the site, even if we left a question.

Scubaman · 09-04-2022, 10:42 PM

Sorry for late reply have been traveling. Appreciate all your information. Will keep looking for original cleaning rod.

Neil Young · 09-05-2022, 11:20 AM

BTW, I learned most of what I know about Luger cleaning rods from Jerry Burney as he coached me on the appearance details required in the making of replica rods. He got me into that project as I made cleaning rods for Luger Carbines. I have thanked him many times but I wanted to do so again publicly. So, thank you Jerry.

Daniel76 · 09-12-2022, 07:12 AM

I believe Simpsons has a correct rod for sale. I had a repro rod that I acquired with an LP08 I bought some months ago. After receiveing it, I did a lot of reading about rods here and elsewhere, and also showed it to Jerry. I have since acquired an original rod, but I would suggest that you read up on them a bit. Certainly knowledge worth having and don't let that one set too long at Simpsons. I may buy that one as well since I now have two LP08's.

08-25-2022, 06:45 PM	#1
Scubaman User Join Date: Aug 2022 Posts: 7 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Cleaning rod Just picked up this cleaning rod to go with my 1917 and was wondering how to tell if a cleaning rod is original. Picked this up at old guns of Idaho auction. Attached Thumbnails

08-25-2022, 07:13 PM	#4
Neil Young Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Scottsboro, Alabama Posts: 545 Thanks: 559 Thanked 442 Times in 168 Posts	It will probably do a good job of cleaning the bore, but it is not an original cleaning rod. The wooden barrel is not the correct shape and the end of the rod at the barrel would be peened over a steel washer and the assembly would be rounded over but not polished. __________________ Neil The hurrier I go the behinder I get. Sometimes it takes me all day to get nothing done.

08-27-2022, 10:04 AM	#5
Neil Young Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Scottsboro, Alabama Posts: 545 Thanks: 559 Thanked 442 Times in 168 Posts	Scubaman, I realize that that was not the response that you would have liked, but a simple acknowledgement would have been nice. __________________ Neil The hurrier I go the behinder I get. Sometimes it takes me all day to get nothing done.

08-27-2022, 01:18 PM	#6
lugerholsterrepair Moderator Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Arizona/Colorado Posts: 7,771 Thanks: 4,926 Thanked 3,124 Times in 1,434 Posts	No good deed goes unpunished. __________________ Jerry Burney 11491 S. Guadalupe Drive Yuma AZ 85367-6182 lugerholsterrepair@earthlink.net 928 342-7583 (CO & AZ) Year Round 719 207-3331 (cell) "For those who Fight For It, Life has a flavor the protected will never know."

08-28-2022, 12:29 AM	#7
ithacaartist Twice a Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Atop the highest hill in Schuyler County NY Posts: 3,339 Thanks: 7,263 Thanked 2,564 Times in 1,362 Posts	Joined this month... There are plenty of reasons we might not make it back to the site, even if we left a question. __________________ "... Liberty is the seed and soil, the air and light, the dew and rain of progress, love and joy."-- Robert Greene Ingersoll 1894

08-25-2022, 06:49 PM	#2
tomaustin Lifer X5 Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: texas Posts: 708 Thanks: 87 Thanked 522 Times in 201 Posts	are you asking original to 1917...?

08-25-2022, 07:01 PM	#3
Mac Cat Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Austin, Texas Posts: 723 Thanks: 2,085 Thanked 603 Times in 325 Posts	The business end is important - is it brass tipped ?

09-04-2022, 10:42 PM	#8
Scubaman User Join Date: Aug 2022 Posts: 7 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Sorry for late reply have been traveling. Appreciate all your information. Will keep looking for original cleaning rod.

09-05-2022, 11:20 AM	#9
Neil Young Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Scottsboro, Alabama Posts: 545 Thanks: 559 Thanked 442 Times in 168 Posts	BTW, I learned most of what I know about Luger cleaning rods from Jerry Burney as he coached me on the appearance details required in the making of replica rods. He got me into that project as I made cleaning rods for Luger Carbines. I have thanked him many times but I wanted to do so again publicly. So, thank you Jerry. __________________ Neil The hurrier I go the behinder I get. Sometimes it takes me all day to get nothing done.

09-12-2022, 07:12 AM	#10
Daniel76 User Join Date: May 2021 Location: Texas Posts: 41 Thanks: 76 Thanked 116 Times in 30 Posts	I believe Simpsons has a correct rod for sale. I had a repro rod that I acquired with an LP08 I bought some months ago. After receiveing it, I did a lot of reading about rods here and elsewhere, and also showed it to Jerry. I have since acquired an original rod, but I would suggest that you read up on them a bit. Certainly knowledge worth having and don't let that one set too long at Simpsons. I may buy that one as well since I now have two LP08's.