This tool was found in a bucket of old Lepley gunsmithing hardware at the Alonzo Lepley estate auction in Southampton Township, Somerset County PA. It is clearly intended to be driven rotationally by a brace, and it is evidentally a wood boring tool, perhaps for making the patch recess in the buttstock behind the patch box door. This tool was previously reported to be hand-forged, but a re-inspection shows it to be of cast or machine-forged construction. It is made from ferrous material. It has an overall length of 4.4", and is 0.884" wide at the widest part. The cutting teeth, if that is what they ever were, are now well rounded.

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