Well, here it is only mid/late November and I’ve had to put a halt to all brick laying. I was all ready to form the oven dome roof arches and cold night temperatures put a stop to that idea. Mortar doesn’t set properly if the temperature goes below 40 degrees F and it’s definitely been [...]
Archive for November, 2008
A Screeching Cool Weather Halt
Posted in Uncategorized on November 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Preparation for the “Golden Arches”
Posted in Uncategorized on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It will be a little warmer tonight (over 40 degrees F), so I figured this would be a good day to do the prep work on laying the dome arches. Here is a picture of the arch support that I made out of foam core boards and foam blocks. I was going to use plywood, [...]
Buttress Those Walls!
Posted in Uncategorized on November 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday and today I finished up the forms for the buttressing/cladding layer around the walls of my oven. I used an old piece of 1/4″ plywood for the back wall, and I was able to re-use the 1×6 and 1×8 forms and other scrap lumber that I had used for the base and hearth slabs, [...]
Oven Chamber continues to grow
Posted in Uncategorized on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
More brick work during the last two days has grown the oven to the point that I can share these photos.
I did quite a bit of brick cutting today to make the pesky triangular pieces that fill in where the body of the oven gets narrowed down to the mouth. I wish my hand-held brick cutter could [...]
The Oven Chamber (starts to) take form
Posted in Uncategorized on November 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hansel and Gretel’s worst nightmare! The wicked witch’s oven starts to take form. The weather’s been nasty, I took another trip out of town and I caught a cold on the airplane. Needless to say, I couldn’t wait to get working on the oven again!
People keep asking me how far along I am with the oven, [...]
