Chambers Fowler Build - Touch Hole Liner

[Hatchet-Jack]

Making some more progress. I got the touch hole liner done. This was my first one. I think it worked out nicely.

[Daryl]

Nicely done, but that flint likely needs changing - it's too blunt.

[smylee grouch]

Neat job and it looks like its in a good position.

[Bob Gerard]

Bingo!

[Mike Brooks]

Vent liner is the last thing I do. You don't want to get any browning solution in the bore

[alacran]

If I use a vent liner, it is one of the last things I do myself. But for a different reason, to tempting to shoot an unfinished gun. I prefer coning from the inside,
after the barrel treatment is done.

[D. Taylor Sapergia]

I don't wait until the rifle is finished to install the vent, Mike, but I plug the hole with a round tooth pick that is long enough to contact the inside of the bore on the far side, and shave off the wood flush with the vent.  I've never got solution inside the bore, even when I boil the barrel for bluing.

[J. Talbert]

Vent liner is the last thing I do. You don't want to get any browning solution in the bore

Mike,
If your saying that you brown the barrel before installing the vent liner, how do you avoid filing off the browning when you dress down the vent liner?

Jeff

[Eric Krewson]

I have found the best thing to plug the vent with is a fresh cut sharpened and slightly oversized green twig. It is more like a cork in consistency and will conform to the hole.