It took a while, followed advice offered on this and other message boards, and it turned out pretty good.  Metal is finished in Aluma Hyde and wood was refinished with Tung Oil, the photo doesn't show it, but the wood turned out exceptionally well.

Looks nice.

Hootbro

Neat. There seem to be two different styles of pistol gripped handguards. Yours is the more angular of the two. The other is more rounded. Am I correct?

Galland

Nice. How about some details? What kind of receiver did you use? Did you need to do any fitting in the magazine well? What riveting method did you use? Did you use a press for any of the work? How did you get the barrel pin out?  How is the headspace? Have you fired it yet?

Nice build...
Galland - the straighter/rounded pistol forearm is for use with underfolder stocks.

Details...I got the kit from DPH Arms, I also got the flat from them, the flat was bent on a DPH bending jig using a friends 20 ton Harbor Freight press.  Rivets were set with a friends rivet tool and a riveting jig for the trigger guard.  I had use of the press to press the barrel out, but then the press was sold, I was unable to get the barrel pin out using any of the methods found on any of the boards, finally had to drill the barrel pin and got a replacement pin.  A friend had the spot welder with modified electrodes and he spot welded the rails for me, as well as heat treating the holes in the receiver and heat treating the ejector.  I also got the Tapco G2 trigger kit from DPH.

I used the all thread method to reinstall the barrel, and used a hammer to reinstall the barrel pin, I did have to do some trimming on the magazine well, not a lot, headspace is fine.  I assembled the rifle and test fired it before finishing the receiver and wood, I had a few snags, trimmed up the rails a little more, hopefully it just needs some shooting to get all the parts seated up properly and working 100%.  Disassembled the rifle, cleaned up the metal and shot it with Aluma Hyde, stripped the wood with Citrus Strip, sanded it, applied some medium oak stain then 6 coats of Tung Oil, the photos don't do justice to the wood, it turned out fantastic!

What exactly is Aluma Hyde?

Quoted: Neat. There seem to be two different styles of pistol gripped handguards. Yours is the more angular of the two. The other is more rounded. Am I correct? Galland

I think the older romanian guns had the more angualr handguards. I have one like that on a 1982 kit, and my dad has the big one that feel like a 2x4 on a 1986 kit.

BTW the underfolder front handguard in swept back not forward.

Nice build BTW.

Quoted: What exactly is Aluma Hyde?

www.brownells.com/aspx/NS/store/ProductDetail.aspx?p=1117&title=ALUMA-HYDE+II

looks solid man!! i have used the aluma hyde on two builds....looks pretty good if you let it cure correctly!