The hopefully not obnoxious wood fired brick oven build thread

[Cape Brewing]

... easy for you to be optimistic... you've never met the man.


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[paulthenurse]

... easy for you to be optimistic... you've never met the man.


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MORT!

MORT is my new shorthand Internet lingo for GFY . Ya its a bit longer than GFY but it has style. Unlike Mort, who is as stylish as an unmade bed.

 

[paulthenurse]

Paulster is defiantly on the short list for pizza party invites


(Thank God he lives up in f'ing Canada. It's got to be a 14 hour drive. No ones gonna drive that far for a couple of pizzas. Ohhhhh. I know. If he shows up at my door I distract him so he doesn't see me throw a few Digiorno's pizzas in the oven. That will make sure he never comes back...)


I think we can all guess who's NOT on that list... That's right. Him. And him. Him too.

 

[ComcastWineRookie]

I know, my name dosent even touch the waitlist. I dont need ur mediocre pizza anyhow

 

[paulster2626]

Paulster is defiantly on the short list for pizza party invites


(Thank God he lives up in f'ing Canada. It's got to be a 14 hour drive. No ones gonna drive that far for a couple of pizzas. Ohhhhh. I know. If he shows up at my door I distract him so he doesn't see me throw a few Digiorno's pizzas in the oven. That will make sure he never comes back...)


I think we can all guess who's NOT on that list... That's right. Him. And him. Him too.

Nope, it's easy. Not even 8 hours, plus I need to hit the USA to get some decent beer anyway (go figure). If your pizza sucks I'll just go grab some chowder and bring it back to your couch that I'm sleeping on.

http://goo.gl/maps/7bOLN

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

If your pizza sucks I'll just go grab some chowder and bring it back to your couch that I'm sleeping on.

http://goo.gl/maps/7bOLN

Actually would it be possible for you to bring a couch? This could work out....

 

[paulthenurse]

Ya but the tolls would be brutal. And my couch isn't all that comfortable (that's a big fat lie!). And you would probably want to go by The Bog and so you would need to be sure to get your immunizations up to date first.

If you insist, it will be done by Masstoberfest, a party I host for home brewers every year, generally held in the beginning of October. The outside won't be pretty but the oven will be done. You can sleep in the wood storage area under the oven. Start making plans now.

 

[paulthenurse]

Hey Dude... MORT!

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

So the couch-ski thread is dead?

 

[paulthenurse]

I can only do 45 things at once. I can only do 44 of them well. The couch skiing is #45. Rather than doing a ****ty job I'm stalling for time.

 

[Cape Brewing]

I can only do 45 things at once. I can only do 44 of them well. The couch skiing is #45. Rather than doing a ****ty job I'm stalling for time.

And yet you felt the need to start this whole thread.

Odd


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[paulthenurse]

Mort!

 

[homebeerbrewer]

You doing anything well would be an accomplishment.


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[paulthenurse]

You doing anything well would be an accomplishment.


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Holy F'ing Groundhog Day, Batman!

I remember hearing your ex wife saying that EXACT same thing about your performance in the sack!

Weird!

 

[homebeerbrewer]

What? She must have been talking about one of her many boyfriends. I don't remember ever being in the sack with her. Well, maybe when we were dating.

 

[paulthenurse]

I've been totally flummoxed by famobs lately. As I said here earlier, my 83 year old dad has been having serious health issues of late. Between having a stroke with thankfully negligible residual deficits and his continued electric panel heart problems (hopefully minimized by last weeks pacemaker insertion) I ain't had time to wipe my hairy arse, never mind play around in the yard. Wanna know hoe busy I've been? I have 2 dives so far this summer. Most years I have 50 heading into August. Two. Not two days of diving... Two stinking dives. My gills are gonna seal up. But today I got to play. I worked 7a-11a for Oscar Tango then headed out to the homeless shelter for a scheduled shift. And another nurse walked in five minutes later! Can I get an Amen? One quick Staff Meeting later and I'm free for the afternoon.'!!!!


And so, in my best Rocky (of Rocky and Bullwinkle fame voice...). "And now for something we hope you really like..."



Cutting wedges from brick sides...



I mortared in the inner arch today.



Dome is taking shape. I cut enough bricks today for two more rows. I had Tver choice of driving to buy more refractory mortar or cutting bricks. Cutting bricks ain't a glamorous job but you can't lay them if they're not cut so I sat n from of the saw for three hours and made a ton of cuts

 

[paulthenurse]

Picked up more bricks after taking dad to the cardiologist. If you keep them wrapped in plastic they stay fresher

 

[paulthenurse]

Here you can really see the results of the cutting

And here you can clearly see what happens when you wash down the brick dust with gin and the take pictures. The f'ing bricks are upside down. Fortunately they're not mortared in place. Turn them over and those gaps will close right up.

 

[paulthenurse]

 

[HoppyDaze]

no

 

[paulthenurse]

No?

No what?

Arrrrrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhhh. And here I thought I was a Moron for sharing this project with you guys.

 

[Cape Brewing]

The best part, by far, is the 290 post record of fail that has been created so far.

You can trace the origins allllll the way back to inception.... and then each and every moment of "is he serious?" that has come since.

It just keeps on giving.

I love it.


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[Evets]

Looks good. At some point you'll find it necessary to not only angle the bricks front to back, but also bottom to top, the bottom being wider. It's not too bad on the lower courses but gets more exaggerated the higher you go.

 

[Cape Brewing]

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Do you drink your shandy with your pinky up like that too?


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[paulthenurse]

Looks good. At some point you'll find it necessary to not only angle the bricks front to back, but also bottom to top, the bottom being wider. It's not too bad on the lower courses but gets more exaggerated the higher you go.

I am cutting the sides on an angle already. If I hadn't already had a couple of gin and tonics before dry stacking them (for the pic where Cape has nicely pointed out my pinky is waving in the wind) the gaps would be pretty tight.

 

[HoppyDaze]

I like a tight gap

 

[paulthenurse]

i like a tight gap

+1

 

[cheezydemon3]

I am amazed that you are managing the cuts.

I mean that as a sincere compliment.

This is the point at which that thing would have a 50% chance of becoming yard art for me.

Keep it up!

 

[wobrien]

I'm amazed that he's been able to keep this thread from becoming obnoxious

 

[paulthenurse]

I have a jig set up on the sliding table of the saw. The first one I used relied upon a hinge with a stop to raise the side (giving you the angle off of vertical between bricks.) and the hinge would be adjusted left or right to give you the angle cut into the center of the dome.

That was entirely too complicated and involved changing the entire thing every time I adjusted a cut.

Now I've simplified the jig. I have a board clamped onto the table. One side of the board gets shimmed up with brick cut offs till it's at the right angle. ( that is the angle for the side cuts between adjacent bricks)
Then the jig board gets shimmed out on one side by using more brick cut offs. That gives the angle cut from the outside of the dome to the central axis point on the oven floor.

What I do is set up for doing one side, say the left side. I cut the far left side of the brick then I move the entire brick to a pencil mark on the jig that gives me the center of the brick and cut again. So now I have two pieces with correct left sides. I cut all the bricks I need for that course then remove the cutoffs and set the jig up the other way to do the right hand cuts. It ends up taking about two and a half hours to make all the cuts for one course, not counting the time to figure out what those angles need to be. It's pretty loud and you end up getting soaked from the spray/splash while sitting in front of the wet saw making all those cuts.
You can see in the picture how the left side of the jig is raised up and shimmed our away from the left back of the sliding table. (There is a piece of cutoff sitting on the jig that makes the picture a bit unclear)