October 6th 2019

This month's meeting was hosted by Ray at his home in Oakville.  Carpooling was arranged for members from the Niagara Region.

The theme was Silver Soldering with a flawless demonstration by Ray.

Ray described the different methods of soldering, when and why he would use soft solder as opposed to silver solder and this was followed with a demonstration in his workshop.

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John had brought in has four gun models (3 x 9 pound and 1 x 12 pound cannons) that were in storage.  The heavy metal barrels were purchased at the gift shop at Ft. George in Niagara on the Lake (NOTL) more than 15 years ago.  The naval style carriages were made from scratch and the infamous metal Garrison carriage (in the centre) was purchased with the barrels.  John pointed out that the Garrison carriage was found to be a terrible idea as if it took a direct hit it would shatter into many deadly pieces.  John added the royal cyphers to each barrel prior to paint by applying tiny dots of Weld Bond to build up and shape the images as he had demonstrated last May (see blog entry below).  The cannon balls are ball bearings.  They are temporarily displayed for us at our meeting on a piece of cardboard, being held with double sided tape.

At last month's meeting David had brought miniature figures he had been carving and mentioned the micro chisel set he uses to produce this work.   Alan had taken the Admiralty Model Carving Workshop last May in NOTL and David had shown everyone the set then.  As Alan will be carving his own figures for his build he purchased a set. These are excellently hand crafted micro chisels, 23 in all, made by Mihail Kirsanov of Russia.  If anyone is serious about wanting to purchase a set contact Alan via this website for information.

At this same workshop David had shown participants a fully articulating aluminium ​vise that he uses when carving small pieces.  Alan's was purchased from Amazon.

Ray had completed his scratch build of the Shamrock V (1:72 scale).  He had been working on this over a period of about 1-1/2 years and was happy to show it to us proudly displayed at a side window.  She measures 119 feet (19.8" at scale) long with a 20 foot (3.3" at scale) beam and 153 foot (25.5" at scale) mast height.

The actual Shamrock V was the last of the series of five racing yachts built by Sir Thomas Lipton (of Lipton Tea) in 1930 for the America's Cup challenge... and is still being sailed today.

Ray also showed us the silhouette of a scaled down man he has been busy shaping ( cut and file ) from a piece of brass.

​He intends to mount this on the mounting base of the model to act as a visual aid to realising the full size of the build.

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