Now that the Gothic arch vault is finished it is now time to start the dry stone surround. My plan was to build radius walls on each side of the vault and to try a style I have seen on the DSWI site about the walls of Inis Oirr. Having never done this style of…
Mud Oven Diary – Dropping the form & pointing the joints
After the granite keystones and brick keys were mortared in I let the work set up for a couple days. This allows the mortar to reach an exceptable degree of hardness because I didn’t want to risk pulling the arch apart if it got stuck. My Dad was with me a so he gave me…
Mud Oven Diary….Carving the keystones
After topping out and dry fitting the key bricks, the next step was to carve the granite key stones for each side. I had brought back some scrap granite from a project in MA last year. ( Clark, I owe you a post about that one..it was granite steps.) Click on the pictures to enlarge…
Mud Oven Diary – Antique Brick Gothic Arch…done!
I got a little busy to keep the updates current but here is where I’m at. Last week was a good one for progress! The form worked out great for the brick work and I’m pretty happy with how the vault turned out. These things are very irregular and setting them was more like coursed,…
Mud Oven Diary….my sand quarry
I had stuff to do until around 2 today and by the afternoon it was too stinkin hot to lay bricks. Translation : I don’t want to fiddle with hot brick, re-tempering mud and all that jazz in the heat today. 91* in late September?….what the heck!!!! Tomorrow and Monday are going to be cooler…
Mud Oven Diary – And so it begins….finally.
So I finally have the wheels going on this project and I am super excited about it. I mentioned some of what I plan to do in the last post with the arch and base. The design is based in part by the Bories of the Vaucluse called Village des Bories. Yet more influence and…
Mud Oven Update……..moving forward.
O.K. here we go. Thanks to those of you that gave me some feedback. It helps to get another point of view when you are figuring things out and by reading your thoughts, I have just solidified my decision to get this sucker built. I am going to move forward and get to work this…
Mud Oven Update…I will revise.
I mentioned last week that my plans for how I build the wood fired earth oven have changed in light of our personal circumstances. The design of this thing has been agonized over and scrutinized more than a decision to launch a nuclear missile. I’m sick of thinking and I want to build….it’s not like…
Mud Oven update
Unfortunately, I don’t have a whole lot going on with the earth oven right now. Our son started school recently and our lives have been very busy these last weeks so I have had no time to devote to the project. One of the things that has used up my time is the next post!…
Wood-Fired Earth Oven Update
It has been rainy here the last couple weeks and it has kept me at a stand still on the project as far as physical work. I had a chance to speak to a good friend of mine that happens to be an excellent architect/engineer. I wanted to see what he thought about my footings…
