Jim Kibler,
As an aside to this whole discussion, for years I heard people / builders complain about poor quality kits, especially in the partially shaped stocks (inlets too big, inlets in the wrong place, barrel inlet too sloppy, too much wood in some places, too little wood in others, poor piece of wood to start with, etc., etc. See the recent discussion about lock placement on a Ferguson.)
Now we seem to have some who complain that the available kits are too good...i.e. all the parts are top quality, the stock is precisely inlet, and the whole thing actually fits together like its supposed to... and it doesn't get shipped in a used cardboard box padded with an old pork chop wrapper but in a well designed wooden crate.
Just my opinion, but keep up the great work and don't look back. But to qualify my opinion, I wouldn't take any advice from me or anyone else who has not done, or at least attempted, to do what you are doing. (I need another project like I need a hole in the head, but I really, really want to order one of your colonial rifle kits...
All the best.
