It’s been a busy year so far. We packed up our life and moved to New York back in March, and it seems like we have only now started to settle in. With our WFE site launched just before we moved, it had to take a back seat while we adjusted to our new life….
So You Want to Build a Wood Fired Oven. Now What?
Wood Fired Ovens! You’ve seen them at your favorite pizza place, you’ve seen them on TV, and all over the Internet and Pinterest. You simply MUST HAVE ONE and you want to build your own… Great! Now what? You might have the best kitchen gadgets in your kitchen and even a place to get started…
Wood Fired Oven Update…..bond beam and structural slab prep.
So now that the dry stonework is done, the next step is turning the top course into a bond beam, to support the cast concrete pieces that will be set on top of it. My plan is to make two 3″ layers, the first overhanging the dry stone by 1 1/4″ or so, then the…
Wood Fired Oven Diary….Dry Stone Base Completed!!
Phew!!! FINALLY!!! After a long drawn out process, the base for the oven is done! Overall, I am pretty happy with it and now I can start on the next part of the build. O.K. enough typing, here is the oven as of today. Lets start up front and go around clockwise. Click on any…
Wood Fired Oven Update….It’s coming soon!!
I have been able to pick away at the dry stone base the last couple weeks, and I should have it done this weekend if it ever stops raining here! I bet some of you thought this was a lost cause!…I was starting to feel that way myself. At any rate, it is looking pretty…
Mud Oven Diary…..starting the dry stone surround.
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…
