TheMad

Hello, my name is Steve Perron from Montreal, Canada. I am a jeweller, goldsmith and silversmith, and a CAD designer on the Rhino 5 software. I have to say I am really happy to be here! I just arrived and I can't stop reading all the wonderful posts that this forum has to offer. What wonderful work all of you do here! I have made things with my hands most of my life, and even my vacations are spent building stuff. I built a few ship models in my youth, and it always was a dream of mine to build a ship in metal. I already use brass and silver in many shapes and forms, to make jewelry, silverware and other goods. So I am planning to build a ship, in sterling silver. The construction will need some adapting since building a ship in metal requires specific fabrication methods, different from woodwork because you can't simply glue metal together. Soldering, assembling at this scale, is more complex than making jewellery. Does anyone in this wonderful group have experience in this regard? I am looking forward to know you all and learn, best as I can whatever you have to teach me. Anyway, I hope to contribute as well as I progress in this. My first step was to research and decide what ship could be appropriate for the project. For now I am leaning towards a viking longboat, maybe not a reproduction of one, but a model adapted from two ships that I have studied. I would not want to build a gigantic longboat, and a very small one either, I am trying to design a "medium" size one, a bit like the Helga Holm, the 22.5m replica of the boat #5 from Helgeandsholmen. I am currently designing it in Rhino 5 (scale undecided yet), and have made some progress. Excuse my marine knowledge, I will get better. Thanks for reading me, Steve