Thanks for the compliment, Steinar. This AK pictured above is my twelfth AK build and one of my meanest looking. I was going for the tactical look...
The one pictured in my avitar is a custom creation. It started life as a Romanian "G". I cut down the barrel, upper handguard, gas tube and gas piston. Then welded the front sight and gas tube together and moved them back. After threading the barrel and redrilling the gas port it was just a matter of putting it all back together again.
It's built on a Global Trades receiver that was registered as a pistol so that I wouldn't have to put a butt stock on it. So now it's a 7.62x39 pistol...
Before paint...
