Well, I Finally cleared a few minutes of my time to make a small start on my Kibler SMR!
I am fitting the butt plate first,(protect toe during build) then will follow Jim's build video order of events to the Letter after this one deviation.
Being from a toolmaker background, I notice fasteners a Lot, I notice the screws that hold the butt plate on are dome shaped screw heads and they are "proud" of the metal surface. From what I see on other Southern rifles, this seems normal. I was preparing the screw heads (per video) with a file and drill motor so the heads will drop into there counterbore and noted they did not drop in quite as far as I thought they could. Curious, I used spotting blue on the underside of the screw heads to test if there where any casting flaws that where not allow the screw heads to fully seat in there counterbore and as I suspected the taper of the screw head was hitting only at the bottom of the V shape. Everything was fine and "normal" but it occurred to me if I slightly alter the screw heads or C'bores that I could drop the screw heads maybe .010 deeper for a slightly cleaner look(to my eyes).
Well it worked! The screws are Still "proud" but sit much lower...perhaps I have all ready offended the HC police but I like it!
Jim has picked nice screws and selected the length well, ...So even my "tiny" alteration has made it so the 2 screws in the Heel area will now collide.
This is easy to correct, if I file about 1/16" off the point of the upper screw, everything will be happy again.
Do most builders prefure a more proud screw head appearance?
For that 1 person wondering Exactly what I did? This crude sketch shows what a section view of stock counterbore might look like in blue ink, the red portion is where the spotting blue showed the screw was hitting and is the area I removed a small amount of metal to avoid weakening the casting to much.