After 4 months of oven building inactivity, this past weekend proved to have the perfect weather to start building again. Once I got the good weather alert from Vaughn (who loves The Weather Channel), I hauled out all the tools and materials I’d need to build the oven chamber arches.
Bricks (very carefully selected from my pile of [...]
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At work again – finally!
Posted in Uncategorized on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bread instead of Bricks
Posted in Uncategorized on December 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The weather here in Georgia is still not co-operating as far as brick laying goes. My brother called yesterday to ask about oven progress and we discussed how the professionals can lay brick in freezing weather. Since I’m not a professional and am in no hurry now that Thanksgiving is past, the brick laying is [...]
A Screeching Cool Weather Halt
Posted in Uncategorized on November 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
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, [...]
Progress to Share
Posted in Uncategorized on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m back from my trip to NC, and as the pictures below will testify I’ve made some real progress on my Georgia Brick Oven in the last two days. Oh, need to mention that during my road trip I stopped by the Lodge cast iron outlet store in Commerce, GA and bought a large cast [...]
Movin’ on Up
Posted in Uncategorized on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been raining steadily all day today, so it’s a good thing that I finished using the mortar on hand yesterday. The outside brick work is getting very close to the level of the hearth slab especially around the back and left side.
I’m taking a few days off (yes, I know I just got back [...]
Ho, Ho, Hoe – my souvenir from St. Simons
Posted in Uncategorized on October 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Back from a nice trip to the beach – St. Simons Island to be exact. If you’ll remember from my last post, my back was giving me some trouble, so it was a good thing to have a week long forced layoff from mixing mortar and laying brick. Rest, Tylenol and Bloody Marys did the [...]
