I finished a percussion version a week or so ago. Nice easy kit that requires minimal wood and metal working skills in all honesty.

Get yourself a rat tail, mill, bastard and half round files and a couple of flat and half round rasps... makes wood removal and shaping very quick. Sandpaper alone will take you forever.

I didn't get intricate at all in my build as far as wood. I was looking to have a well fitting rifle that wasn't very embellished as it will be a heavy use rifle for hunting and shooting. I shaped and slimmed it down and sharpened edges and blended, etc.

One of the things that will make life easy... install the hardware on the stock (nose cap, butt plate, bottom plate, ramrod tube and the pin holders) and shape, sand and finish the stock TO THEM... they will keep you from rounding the edges over or removing too much wood. Once the wood is done you can gently remove them and finish the metal. you'll remove a bit of metal while smoothing it out but not enough to notice a discontinuity from wood to metal.

I redrilled the holes for the tiny screws just a bit oversize of what they were. Added some soap and I didn't break any. Another trick I have read about is using #2 screws instead of those tiny #1's.

There is some tweaking involved and my ramrod has an uber tight fit in the stock... The more I work it though the more it frees up...

I did finish my metal in a heavy Laurel Mountain Forge browning finish. I let it sit in a hot humid environment for 24 hours and then rubbed it back with 0000 steel wool under hot water to metal. Leaves a nice antiqued grey color to the metal. Havn't had an issue with rust yet and given about a month I'll wax the stock and all metal for protection.

The rifling was sharp as glass in my barrel and was slicing the heck out of my patches so I did run a patch coated with some 320 grit clover lapping compound down it a few times to soften the edges and burrs. Much better now.

My stock finish is a mixture of red mahogany stain and tung oil cut with mineral spirits... 6 hand rubbed coats total. Applied liberally initially until the wood would take no more... left on heavy without wiping. wet sand with 320 and tung oil / stain twice leaving slurry to fill grain... then wet sanded with tung oil / stain 3 more times with 600 grit paper.

The triggers are gritty and heavy... had to do some work on those... the set breaks like glass @ a couple of ounces now.... the single stage is much better also.