So one set of hobnails came in today and I just had to try my hand at making a Mystery Chunk.
Before:
After:
Now, keep in mind, the pictured hobnail are two different nails. I put the one in the "after" pic to work first out of excitement. It came together really quick: Sand the grime of time away from it, grind the top down a bit, and then checker it (4x4), before scruffing the tips.
One quick note is that these are unissued, WW2 vintage. Meaning these came at a time when each nail was
hand made, so each hobnail is going to be slightly different from each other. The first pictured hobnail has these little ridges/lips along the bottom all the way around its base (cast in a mold or form, maybe?) while the one pictured under it only has them on two sides. Some have them on three sides, some have them on one; there some that have fuller, others that have smaller almost flush lips; some are fully square at the base, others are more rounded, and some others are almost completely round at its base.
Here are some pics of it on the Starkiller V2 for relative size comparison. Considering these are nails, I imagine to get them to fit in a hole that's true to size on the real deal for the motor wires, these would first have to be fitted with a plug of some kind, and then fitted into the hole in the pommel.
So, is the Mystery Chunk a mystery no more? Well, I don't think so. But we are certainly close, I feel.