The hopefully not obnoxious wood fired brick oven build thread

[paulthenurse]

Got another row on today and worked on the flue opening. A mason might shudder at my work but I'm ok with how it's coming.

Looking in from the outside...



Looking down the flue. I need to put one last course with an arch then the 8 x 8 flue sits in the opening.

 

[paulthenurse]

I started to do the flue support as arches but realized that I didn't have enough bricks to cut for arches but I had an excess of straight regular bricks. Decision made.

 

[Brickman]

Wow. That is a sheetload of work. Is there going to be a chimney, or is it a solid dome, and does the smoke come out the front hole?

I imagine that the dome makes much more efficient heat, but I'd never have the patience to build something like that - maybe a square oven, but f all those cuts!

I could see me starting something like that, and getting half way through, before loosing all interest. Years later, I'd be pointing at the pizza mausoleum memorial in the back yard....

Paul is doing an excellent job for a first time oven. However for most I recommend a kit from Superior Clay in Ohio. They are not cheap but once you factor in the time and the materials they can be well worth it. Many tell me brewing is too much work and just buy my beer but one man's hobby is another man's drudgery. I grew up in the brick industry so I know how much work he is putting in on this.

Superior Clay Masonry Oven

Mark

 

[paulthenurse]

Paul is doing an excellent job... I grew up in the brick industry so I know how much work he is putting in on this.


Mark

Do you want to be BFF's?

 

[Brickman]

Do you want to be BFF's?

Sure. Just don't cook me any pizza. Not sure I want to eat all of the brick chips that will forever fill your food.

 

[Evets]

Ouch!

 

[paulthenurse]

I think your account had been hacked by a "professional brewer" from the Boston suburbs.

 

[Melana]

Paul is doing an excellent job for a first time oven. However for most I recommend a kit from Superior Clay in Ohio. They are not cheap but once you factor in the time and the materials they can be well worth it. Many tell me brewing is too much work and just buy my beer but one man's hobby is another man's drudgery. I grew up in the brick industry so I know how much work he is putting in on this.

Superior Clay Masonry Oven

Mark

Now i want one.

 

[Cape Brewing]

Sure. Just don't cook me any pizza. Not sure I want to eat all of the brick chips that will forever fill your food.

Classic.

Not only is this sucker gonna give people Ebola, it's gonna chip their teeth while it does it.

Beautiful

 

[HoppyDaze]

You should be careful what you ask for, sometimes people go looking and you never know what they are going to find.



These appear to be you 'putting your own spin' on drinking beer from a glass...







Jeezuz, you're carrying a knife? Yeager needs to childproof the house....







And this next one is my favorite...



"I told SWMBO that I was going to Home Depot to get an Air Conditioner. It's February!!!! She won't suspect a thing!!!! When I get home in a few more hours I'll tell her that they were all out but said they are expecting a new shipment in any minute and I decided to wait around..."



(muffled voice from Capes pocket... "Hey Moron, you butt dialed me four hours ago. My girlfriends and I have been listening to you arseholes since two o'clock this afternoon...")



"Hey guys, I gotta get going home..."







Yup, you're right. I LOVE looking at pics of brew days gone by. Good times, good times.

Oh my Fvcking god, Cape wears a beret.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Now i want one.

Ah. We should be able to put one of these up in no time at Masstoberfest if this thing isn't completed in time. It took these guys under 2 hours to do theirs.

 

[ComcastWineRookie]

hmmmm, 2 hrs of 2 years. I like 2 hrs

 

[Cape Brewing]

So doing that just to get it done, make a pizza, and post a picture of me eating it before Paul's finished.

 

[Melana]

OK. i'm in. where does one get that mould?

 

[Melana]

nevermind... i found it.

 

[paulthenurse]

Got a little more done on the oven.

Might not be to AZippah's specs but it's close enough for me.

 

[ChefRex]

Looking good!

 

[hunter_le five]

Looks like $#!t!

Ftfy


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[bob1852]

It's the leaning tower of pizzah!

 

[Cape Brewing]

It's the leaning tower of pizzah!

nah... it's straight... he's just got one leg that's a lot shorter than the other... that throws the photo off

 

[paulthenurse]

It's the leaning tower of pizzah!

That's some funny **** right there,

Now GFY!

 

[paulthenurse]

Cut some more bricks today. Slow and steady, I'm like a glacier moulding beautiful mountain valleys.

 

[bluemoose]

Is that because you are big and slow and leave a wake of carnage in your path?

 

[beernbourbon]

That's some funny **** right there,

Now GFY!

Is that because you are big and slow and leave a wake of carnage in your path?

no, THAT is some funny ****.....

 

[paulster2626]

Are you going to paint it?

 

[paulthenurse]

When you drive down from The Peoples Republic for Masstoberfest I'll show you some destruction.

 

[HoppyDaze]

I think its really cool when people don't care about what stuff looks like. Is it functional, no...but it looks ****ty. Only kidding, it is cool that you are letting your kid build the oven for you.

 

[Cape Brewing]

hehehe


(Hoppy's on FIRE lately).


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[paulthenurse]

(Hoppy's on FIRE lately).

Such a shame the Fire Department is on another call.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

Such a shame the Fire Department is on another call.

Citizen report of a potential back yard fire, health, and life safety hazard ...

 

[paulthenurse]

Im going to have to re-figure my dough formula. I'm clearly not going to need as much as I was planning on.

 

[paulthenurse]

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Do you think it's a coincidence that when I look at that picture Cape, AZippah, BlueBalls and a few others come immediately to mind?

 

[homebeerbrewer]

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Do you think it's a coincidence that when I look at that picture Cape, AZippah, BlueBalls and a few others come immediately to mind?

Actually Paul, you come to mind. It's round.

 

[paulthenurse]

You are one of those others.

 

[paulthenurse]

I'm developing a problem in the transition from the dome to the opening that I'm unsure of how to fix. The dome is getting out of round, more teardrop-ish as it gets to the transition.

I'm not sure what is causing it but it is making the courses drop down on the arch. There is a significant drop back to front. I'm sure I can fix it once I get above the arch, if I need to I can cut bricks into wider widths and gain back the drop but I'd really rather avoid that. Somebody hold my hand and sing Kumbaya.

 

[bob1852]

I'm developing a problem in the transition from the dome to the opening that I'm unsure of how to fix. The dome is getting out of round, more teardrop-ish as it gets to the transition.

I'm not sure what is causing it

Uh, the whole thing isn't level and you aren't measuring your bricks before you cut them and you wonder what's wrong?

 

[Evets]

I had the same problem when I built mine, though it was pretty minor, but I'm not sure why. I suspect it may have been caused when I had to lay two bricks in a straight line on each side of the arch to tie it together. Once I cleared the arch it pretty much fixed itself.
Are you using a guide to maintain the shape?(indispensable tool)

 

[paulthenurse]

I'm regretting my hubris of thinking I didn't need an IT. It seems to be biting me in the azz. Now I need an Uber-IT to fix my sheet!

 

[Evets]

It-s not too late. Plus it really comes in handy on the upper courses where the bricks are on such a steep angle.

 

[paulthenurse]

Clearly a teardrop shape is developing..


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Can't get much clearer than that. As the courses of brick come into the arch I'm dropping down into the arch causing a future major problem