November 2004
 Monday 11/1/04 Hearth slab
without the wooden
frame.
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 Saturday 11/06/04 The firebricks
are laid down
on a mixture of 1 part fireclay and 1 part fine mortar sand.
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 Saturday 11/06/04 The middle
brick has a
thermocouple mounted into it from the bottom. Sorry, no picture.
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 Saturday 11/06/04 One hundred
and fourteen
firebricks.
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 Saturday 11/06/04 Two courses
down, two more to
go. After that, time to start the dome.
Deviation from the Alan Scott plans: As you can see I did not start with the oven door bricks. Because the ratio of the door vs. dome height is so important, I thought it would be easier to make the dome first and once I knew the exact height of it, then mess with the door. In my opinion it's easier to finetune the height of the door vs trying to fine tune the height of the dome. I also opted not to put the side wall bricks up straight as indicated in the book. Instead, I went with the extra strenght by laying the flat. |
 Saturday 11/06/04 For somebody
who never laid
two bricks on top of each other, I would say: Not to shabby!
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 Sunday 11/07/04 On Sunday
morning 2 more courses
of firebrick were added.
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 Sunday 11/07/04 Building up the
back wall so the
dome can be attached to it.
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 Sunday 11/07/04 Done for this
weekend.
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 Sunday 11/07/04 I'm the King of
the World!
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 Saturday 11/13/04 A mockup of
the dome.
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 Wednesday 11/17/04 I used old
framing wood to
brace the outer walls for the dome.
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 Thursday 11/18/04 Six firebricks
were cut at a
45 degree angle so the dome could rest on it.
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 Thursday 11/18/04 I recycled the
firebrick
wedges and mortared them into the corners. This will make it a lot
easier to remove any ashes from the back of the oven.
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 Saturday 11/20/04 Ten o'clock.
The arch is
started with Car Talk on the radio.
Hey, stop looking at my butt! |
 Saturday 11/20/04 About an hour
later the first
arch was completed.
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 Saturday 11/20/04 Looking pretty
sweet.
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 Saturday 11/20/04 Trying to
figure out how to
make a smooth transition to the oven door.
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 Saturday 11/20/04 Top view of
the door mockup.
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 Saturday 11/20/04 Picture of the
finished door
transition.
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 Saturday 11/20/04 Top view of
the finished door
transition.
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 Saturday 11/20/04 Side view.
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 Saturday 11/20/04 Satisfied
customer.
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 Saturday 11/23/04 Entryway to
the oven wich will
also support a red brick arch.
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 Saturday 11/23/04 An angle iron,
a piece of
lumber, a bunch of bricks and gravity in perfect harmony.
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 Saturday 11/23/04 Closeup of my
masonary
skills...
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 Saturday 11/23/04 Top view.
Tomorrow the side
holes will get filled in, somehow...
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 Wednesday 11/24/04 I decided to
close the gap
with 3.5 firebricks.
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 Wednesday 11/24/04 This is how
is looks from the
inside.
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 Wednesday 11/24/04 Set in place
with fireclay
mortar.
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 Wednesday 11/24/04 A 20" piece
of leftover rebar
and some leftover firebrick cuttings was all I needed to turn a 45
degree slope into a flat platform.
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 Wednesday 11/24/04 Taadaa! Now I
can lay bricks
accros the oven door.
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 Wednesday
11/24/04 Like this.
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 Wednesday 11/24/04 It's
defenitely starting to
look like something.
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 Friday 11/26/04 Figuring out the
correct hight
for the front arch.
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 Friday 11/26/04 Two hours later.
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 Friday 11/26/04 Continuing to
build up for the
chimney.
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 Friday 11/26/04 Woohoo. It's all
coming together!
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 Friday 11/26/04 Bread oven?
Nuclear reactor?
Time machine?
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 Saturday 11/27/04 Little by
little the entire
thing gets covered with more concrete.
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 Saturday 11/27/04 Three inches
of concrete on
the side and four inches on top.
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 Saturday 11/27/04 This will cure
for about 2
weeks. Once cured, the insulation is applied.
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 Sunday 11/28/04 I covered the
oven with wet
concrete bags for a day or two. Keeping the concrete from drying out
too fast makes it stronger.
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 Saturday 11/27/04 Franklin
grabbed his scetch
book and started playing around with some facade ideas.
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 Saturday 11/27/04 Idea one.
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 Saturday 11/27/04 Idea two.
We'll see how it all
turns out...
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