Nice idea. I feel that you should have the chanel walls a little lower so when you put the pelt in and then the base would just cover up the whole inside. But take note of the allowance for the wires and seal the wire connections very well so that no water can get to it. Try to make the chanelwalls as thin as possible so that you can have more surface of pelt to water while still applying pressure on the pelt.
But again, there's a problem to this. Soldering the base which is the coldplate to the shell, which is the hotside, there will be quite a signifcant thermal leak from cold side to hotside.
Epoxy maybe better, but then again, how insulative can a thin layer of epoxy be?
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