Spent the day soldering.
Set guard and painted yellow ochrre where I didn't want the solder to flow, and fluxed where Idid want it to go. Wraped the blade with a paper towel and wet it with a spritzer.
I started with handle up.
Put the solder chips in a bath of flux
Then on the guard
Set the heat gun at 950, it didn't flow so I took it down cleaned up and set up again this time with out the ochre.
This time it flowed, turn the temp up 1050.
Turned it blade up and the idea is to heat the joint at the face and the solder will be pulled up and fill the gap with out going all over the guard. You can see it didn't work for me , my gap is to big for one, maybe not enough or to much solder. There is a big gap right in the center.
I added solder to the face 4 times filling gaps
I finally got the gaps filled and chiseled the joints with a brass point and sanded, then went to the buff real quick. I'll spend more time to get it looking better.
Ground this chisel out of 1/4" brass rod
All in all a good day, about 6 hrs. work time, glad to have made progress and ready to move on to the handle.
Thanks for looking in and feel free to comment.