I have not seen any threads on the colonial rifle yet so I want to share my experience with one. Prior to this kit I have built 3 rifles, the first was from a Track of the Wolf kit and 2 others on my own. To start, the kit came in a very nice box with very easy to understand directions. The brass furniture is soft and as nice as you can buy. The chambers lock included with the kit is of the best quality as well as the Rice barrel. No doubt the components are all top quality.
I used very little tools to assemble this kit. Jim has a nice list of tools you might expect to use assembling one of his kits listed right on his web site. Don’t expect to wear out or dull any tools on this build because the precision of the CNC inlets is amazing. The only wood I removed was a couple of tiny slithers getting the breech to fit, after that the chisel was useless. You will spend a little time with a file cleaning up the barrel and putting a draft on some other parts, all noted in the directions. I did need to use a three sided safe edge file to get the underlugs on the barrel, it took just a couple of swipes to get the underlugs to slide in. A very easy operation.
