You can make the handguard from something else if you want. Go to gunshows or call stock makers and get a chunk of stock that has the same barrel channel as the handguard. Then carve the outside and use a file or rasp and belt sander to get the proper curvature. It may take some time but what else do you do when watching the game on TV. I needed a handguard for my Hungarian M35. A broken M95 stock is what I started with. Just remember our forefathers with just a tree branch and hand tools
made some very nice Kentucky rifle stocks.
made some very nice Kentucky rifle stocks.