Christmas Project - Day 5ish

As expected Christmas has got in the way of me getting into the workshop to work on the project. However, this evening, I managed to finally get off the sofa and away from the Xmas leftovers and get a bit of 'smithing' done.

I've now attached the base of the piece. This is achieved by filing the wall section flat so that when it sits on a sheet of silver, there are no gaps. With the wall section sitting on the silver sheet, I apply the flux and then place small pallions around the base. Then its soldering. The size of the piece now means that I need to apply a lot of heat in order to get all of the silver up to temperature and at the same time try not to overheat it...I've melted a lot of silver this way...

This last picture shows the base soldered in place. Next step is to cut off the excess and file down.