Original Finish for VZ 52

[Singer B]

I finished it up. I attached a "before" photo with the CAI finish on it and then two photos of the finished project. I also found a front sight hood and spent 3 hours trying to install it (I guarantee there was some worker in a Czechoslovakian worker in a factory in 1956 installing these and thinking to himself "someday, some capitalist American will need to do this and it will drive him crazy!). I tried various plier and pry tools with no luck, the hood kept shooting off the tools as I expanded it to fit over the sight mount and into the slots. I finally used an 8" snap ring plier with the 90 degree tips (picture attached) that kept the hood from shooting off the end as it was expanded. I hope that helps out someone in the future!