32 to 36 inches.
They go out in boxes containing 100, in straight lengths, and soft to admit of their being wound into armlets, &c.
The diameter of the rod varies from ³⁄₁₆ in. to about ⅜ in.—but a rod weighing about 24 oz. to 3 ft., and ⅜ in. thick, is the one most often made.