Here are a few pictures of my home built FALS.

The first one started life as a CAI STG-58 "Crack 'Ho", that I've completely rebuilt into what is commonly referred to as a "FrankenFAL, due to the fact that it is made up of parts of varying pedigrees!

It is now made up of :

 Imbel Gear Logo receiver

 New Argentine barrel cut to 18" with DSA, U.S. made short brake silver soldered on.

 South African R-1 lower, that I used to test my home parkerizing prowess. It came out so good that I used it!

Metal GI STG handguards

Izzie hooded rear sight (high, to match the Argie front)

L1A1 folding charging handle taken from my Tapco kit (I needed a few more US parts for that one, so it was laying around!)

Homemade semi auto only selector

Penguin U.S. made "humpback" buttstock

CAI U.S. made Pistol Grip

DSA U.S. made gas piston

First Son Enterprises hammer, trigger and sear

Finish is home parkerizing.

The next one is an STG-58 kit that I got from What a Country. It was a standard grade kit, with little finish left on it and the handguards were bent. It was in otherwise nice shape.

It's built on a non gear logo Imbel, from Wholesale Guns and Ammo.

It is built close to stock STG, with a few changes. It has a Tapco U.S. made, "look alike" Stoll brake silver soldered on to the barrel, a quick detachable bipod from Dan's sporting goods and a Penguin U.S. made humpback stock. The bore looks new. The other U.S. parts are:

FSE fire control parts

Tapco piston

Tapco STG look alike handguards

CAI pistol grip.

Finish is "British Black" paint over what was left of the original parkerizing. I'm going to eventually re-park this one, but it shoots so well that I hate to take it apart!

The L1A1 is an Aussie kit from Tapco. It is also a standard grade kit. It was in very good shape out of the box, PERFECT bore but COVERED in cosmoline! The only wood that I replaced was the pistol grip, which is now a U.S. made one from Volunteer Ordinance Works. I stripped the kit wood with TSP and stained it with some stain I had left from a furniture project, then 3 coats of satin polyurethane. I removed and reparked the handguard metal as well as the new pop rivets. The entire parts kit was blasted and reparked.  (except for the barrel.....I ordered the faux flash hider right before Dan @ VOW got sick, so it took a while for it to arrive. I didn't want to have to park it again after silver soldering.)  The kit is built on an Entreprise Arms type 3 metric receiver (so I can use my vast inventory of metric mags!!!!). US parts are pistol grip, faux flash hider, Tapco gas piston, FSE fire control parts and a VOW charging handle.  I also have a G-1 kit that I might build one of these days. It's kind of beat up, so maybe another FrankenFal??????

The rest of the pictures are of some of my other toys. The rifle on the bottom row middle is an Air Arms TX-200 HC air rifle and the last is of my paintball rig!

Fort courage! It's what happens when the little green terrorists invade!