Texas is a big place, where are you?to get some help building the gun,
You'll need a 20-ton shop press to do most of the building, which is $140 if you can find it on sale. If you intend on building your own receiver, tack on another $400 in bending jigs, rivet jigs, and practice flats. If you don't have the luck of buying a kit with its original barrel.... Tack on another $150 in materials to fit/finish the (sub-par quality) barrel yourself, plus the hours of work of trying to get the head-spacing right to work with the rest of the build.
And if you bend your own flat, you're going to have to have a good quality welder of some kind to weld the rails in place, along with a drill press/angle grinder to finish and mold the finer parts of the finished receiver if necessary. Finally, once you've got the receiver and barrel finished (or paid the out-of-pocket expense to hire someone to do it for you) and you've got everything more or less ready to go, you have to figure out a way (there are several, and all of them are hard for a first-timer) to heat-treat several crucial parts of the receiver so that it won't literally fall apart on you after your first magazine.
The result is a rifle of comparable quality to a WASR-10 which, unless you're really handy, MIGHT be good for a 3" circle at 25 yards, with some considerable work to fix any FTF/FTE problems that might arise from an improperly drilled gas port. It's going to cost you over to $1,000 to get all the tooling and equipment to build your first AK of either kind, and probably more since the ATF has made it a lot harder to get good quality import kits (which are going for $500 themselves as someone mentioned already).
An ak is a pheasant rifle with loose tolerates designed to hit a target.