I am not sure I can help you enough through written means, but I will try to give you some pointers.
There is very little that is symmetric in a gauntlet and bad modern gauntlets are often built with an abundance of symmetry. This is very different from how historical gauntlets look and are made.
This is a pretty good picture showing a top perspective of a very nice gauntlet:
If you look at the center crease of the cuff and imagine continuing that line across the back of the hand to the middle of the knuckles and then all the way to the center of the foremost finger lame, there are a couple of distinct angle changes happening. To simplify the idea of this is to say that the line changes angle at two distinct points, one at the wrist and one at the knuckles. Compare this to modern sport gauntlets and you will see that very often this line is pretty much straight all the way through the whole gauntlet.
To make it more complex, there is really a sort of "curve" through the whole piece with slight variation in spacing and shape on each lame and the rivets on the pinky side will be spaced more closely together than the rivets on the index finger side. I tend to punch all the holes on the metacarpal lames on the pinky side first, use nuts and bolts to hold them together and then fuzz around with the lames until I am happy with everything and punch the index finger side holes on one lame at a time, assemble with a nut and a bolt, then repeat for each lame. The same thing then happens with the finger lames separately.
To pattern gauntlets, I find that making the cuff first and get that right is where I like to start. I then pattern the metacarpal section and finally the finger lames. That is the order I also build gauntlets. Usually, the whole thing can be patterned pretty well and easy in cardboard since the finished lames usually lack very complex shapes, except the knuckle plates that requires some extra work.
Gauntlets are somehow very simple and at the same time very complex pieces. They gave me a lot of headache before I was able to wrap my brain around them and I still struggle with some models and I cannot really say why. Playing with real antique gauntlets have helped me tremendously and this is something I can highly recommend to anyone who is interested in making some. That of course goes for all types of armour, not only gauntets.
