Spent the day putting some of the brass rivets in the shell a VERY time consuming and "fiddly" business.

Finally finished polishing the guard:

Didn't make ot to the shop today.
I ended up cleaning up storm damage and HTML programing.
Lord willing I'll be back in the shop on Monday.

Shabbat shalom.

Worked on polishing the guard again today as well as rebuilding my website, I will be changing web hosts in early spring and want to roll out a new site.

Found my card reader so here is a picture from a couple of days ago of the thumb-ring welded to the knuckle-bow:


And here is today's progress, with the guard complete and ready for polishing:

Welded on the shell-guard.
Still no card-reader.

Welded on the thumb ring yesterday.
And lost my memory card reader so I can't post pictures till I find it.