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  1. #241
    Quote Originally Posted by presence View Post
    nice tod, I was leaning black walnut but I knew that wasn't right

    I'll give a go at this pic, though its never easy from afar.




    tall stack on left from top down

    wenge
    fir
    zebrawood
    chestnut
    mahogany
    curly maple
    cherry
    white oak
    ash

    small board by itself on left

    red alder

    middle stack top down

    cumaru
    elm
    purple heart
    Brazilian koa
    poplar plywood


    right stack top down

    cedarbirch
    white pine
    Brazilian cherry
    red oak




    lol I probably failed.
    I'd say about half are correct. I don't know all of them either, they aren't all marked!! Should be easy to figure out though, this hardwood supplier only has 100+ different types of wood, lol.

    I'll see if I can compare your list tomorrow! I'd say you did pretty well from this single pic.



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  3. #242
    This is what I know for certain (or pretty sure). Maybe I'll post pics of the individual ones I don't know, there seems to be a lot of wood knowledge around here and I like learning.

    Quote Originally Posted by presence View Post
    tall stack on left from top down

    wenge - American walnut
    fir - Linden (apparently also known as basswood)
    zebrawood - correct!
    chestnut - Elm
    mahogany - correct!
    curly maple - correct!
    cherry - Spanish cedar (stuff they use in humidors)
    white oak - don't know yet.
    ash - don't know yet.

    small board by itself on left

    red alder - don't know yet.

    middle stack top down

    cumaru - Bubinga
    elm - correct!
    purple heart - correct!
    Brazilian koa - don't know yet.
    poplar plywood - correct!


    right stack top down

    cedarbirch - don't know yet.
    white pine - Maple
    (think you forgot one here, the white board with brown edge, Tulipwood or Yellow poplar.
    Brazilian cherry - Padouk
    red oak - don't know yet.




    lol I probably failed.

  4. #243
    This is cool. It looks inexpensive, within my skill set, and I like playing in mud. A win, win, win, for me. I'm a little confused about where the food goes, it looks like there's only one opening.



    http://www.theyearofmud.com/2009/09/...ob-pizza-oven/




    Also, I saw this pic and imagine this is how luctor sleeps.


  5. #244
    Quote Originally Posted by Suzanimal View Post
    This is cool. It looks inexpensive, within my skill set, and I like playing in mud. A win, win, win, for me. I'm a little confused about where the food goes, it looks like there's only one opening.



    http://www.theyearofmud.com/2009/09/...ob-pizza-oven/




    Also, I saw this pic and imagine this is how luctor sleeps.

    Yeah there is only one opening. When you bake bread you take out the fire as soon as it reached a high enough temperature. Put an insulating door in and wait. When you make pizza you push the fire to one side so it keeps heating the oven while the entrance is open. This is is why good insulation is vital, it saves you a lot of fuel!



    I'm sorry to inform you that that is not how I sleep, although, it would be appropriate.

  6. #245
    Quote Originally Posted by luctor-et-emergo View Post
    Yeah there is only one opening. When you bake bread you take out the fire as soon as it reached a high enough temperature. Put an insulating door in and wait. When you make pizza you push the fire to one side so it keeps heating the oven while the entrance is open. This is is why good insulation is vital, it saves you a lot of fuel!


    I wonder if I could just build a fire pit in the bottom. It seems like moving the fire would be a pain in the butt and I'd probably end up burning myself. It also seems like you would get ash in your food. Eww...


    I'm sorry to inform you that that is not how I sleep, although, it would be appropriate.

  7. #246
    Quote Originally Posted by Suzanimal View Post
    I wonder if I could just build a fire pit in the bottom. It seems like moving the fire would be a pain in the butt and I'd probably end up burning myself. It also seems like you would get ash in your food. Eww...




    Actually I don't know if wood ash is that bad for you, provided it's from clean wood. It's mostly potassium minerals and some of the other minerals that you can't burn off such as carbon and nitrogen in the wood. I wouldn't say eat it but I wouldn't worry about it either.

    It's definitely easier to make an oven where you make you fire on the oven floor, a separate firebox is possible but it's going to require a lot more planning.

  8. #247
    Quote Originally Posted by Suzanimal View Post
    I wonder if I could just build a fire pit in the bottom. It seems like moving the fire would be a pain in the butt and I'd probably end up burning myself. It also seems like you would get ash in your food. Eww...




    You use a shovel-type pizza-scoopy thing, it has a long handle...you just shove the wood or coals to the sides with it after it's properly heated (about 800F), then use the same utensil to shovel your pizza in the center. If it's thin enough (and it should be pretty thin--take it easy on toppings too), it only takes about 2-3 minutes to cook.
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  9. #248
    I like 'em all.

    Maybe I'm..
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    ...

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  11. #249
    Yeah, well, not much progress here... Working on other peoples' beautiful stuff right now. I guess I am no longer an amateur builder. I am now working for the contractor and expert carpenter/builder that I made my workshop with and that helped me brainstorm this oven.. Not a lot of time to work on other projects as I still have another part time job to do.

    I'll try to get the foundation stuff all done so I can start on the oven in spring. With the amount of experience I am gaining right now this should go a bit faster. As soon as I have some time. My time is getting scarce, luckily I know a bit about economics and scarce goods... Well you know the drill.
    "I am a bird"

  12. #250
    Quote Originally Posted by luctor-et-emergo View Post
    I have gotten some nice wood to make a countertop out of. Any guesses to what type of wood this is ? It's pretty dense wood though it's not hard as rock. No prize for getting it right beyond +rep and a lot of respect. (they are approx 6" wide by 1 3/4" thick (or so, we do decimals here, 150x40 or so, still rough.))
    These boards have now been glued up. We routed a slot in the sides, about 5/8" deep and 1/2" high. We used strips cut from the excess to fill these slots. Like with a biscuit joiner but then full length. Because we don't have a biscuit joiner and using the same wood makes it easier to route the openings for the ceramic bowls without having biscuits visible. We made another board to use as a table top for the sink in the toilet.. Same wood, same style, that should be nice. Apart from some sawdust I have a nice reference piece of Wenge left. Overall it's really nice wood but I think it's definitely better to work with power tools than hand-tools, it really likes to tear out.

    Still a couple more days of vacation. I hope the weather is mild so I can cut the last number of stones I need for the pizza oven base. This project has been sitting idle for nearly two months now and I'm getting a bit restless but freezing weather doesn't make it easier. I don't want to put the tile-saw outside either when it rains (it's electric). And using it inside is not an option since it sprays a mixture of water and brick dust out of the end...
    "I am a bird"

  13. #251
    Quote Originally Posted by luctor-et-emergo View Post
    This is what I know for certain (or pretty sure). Maybe I'll post pics of the individual ones I don't know, there seems to be a lot of wood knowledge around here and I like learning.
    Was the first picture with the single stack of wood Bocote?
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  14. #252
    Quote Originally Posted by ClydeCoulter View Post
    Was the first picture with the single stack of wood Bocote?
    No, it's actually Wenge (which was mentioned but I don't blame you for missing that in this giant topic).

    I looked it up since this woods look very similar but they are not very close family. It certainly seems to be similar in appearance to Wenge. It seems to be similar in other major characteristics as well.
    I must say I had not heard of this species of wood before.. So I learned something new today, cool!
    "I am a bird"

  15. #253
    I like winter but I wish it were a bit warmer so I could work on the oven again. I haven't even finished my own and I have got someone who wants me to build one for them. A year ago I was slightly underemployed, right now I've got more work than I can handle... Not sure if I'll even have time left to make pizza's when my oven is done...

    I thought I might give this topic a little nudge... Spring is about 2 months away. I've got the bricks cut to finish the base. All I need is suitable weather to work with masonry cement.
    "I am a bird"

  16. #254
    Quote Originally Posted by luctor-et-emergo View Post
    Not sure if I'll even have time left to make pizza's when my oven is done...
    .
    NO! Whatever is going on, other than a severely sick child, can wait on pizza!

  17. #255
    Quote Originally Posted by tod evans View Post
    NO! Whatever is going on, other than a severely sick child, can wait on pizza!
    Well I don't have kids. Although I take care of my pets as if they are...

    I'm ashamed to admit that in the last couple of months I haven't made that many pizzas.. Less then once a week and usually no more than 3 or 4. On the upside, I've been able to spend a lot more money on tools I want, which is just about as good as pizza.. I know it's not a pizza substitute but I'll live with it !
    "I am a bird"

  18. #256
    Once you're done acquiring all the tailed tools you need you're in the right geographical location to search out the nice original cordless ones;

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  20. #257
    One can only dream about a toolbox that nice...

    I really like high end hand tools though, as accurate as the user, unlike some (most) power tools.
    "I am a bird"

  21. #258
    Quote Originally Posted by luctor-et-emergo View Post
    One can only dream about a toolbox that nice...

    I really like high end hand tools though, as accurate as the user, unlike some (most) power tools.
    Kind of out of place in a thread about masonry and pizza...........Sorry..

  22. #259
    Make sure you keep your work covered. Ice can ruin something like that fast without weather shed.

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  23. #260
    I follow a family on youtube that moved to the Ozarks to go off the grid and become self sustaining. In this episode the built a brick pizza oven. Figured I would share it. I like all of their videos, very interesting. The old guy with the gun on his side, yeah, that's me in 25 years. Lol!

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  24. #261
    Quote Originally Posted by presence View Post
    Make sure you keep your work covered. Ice can ruin something like that fast without weather shed.
    I've had it covered for a couple of weeks already, ever since it appeared winter was coming. I did find that some of my unused bricks were frozen together, no apparent damage so I covered those as well, the freezing weather is going away next week, we'll probably get another round later so lets hope I don't have to get new ones. Although, I have to get new bricks anyways, I only had about 80 left and I still need a few hundred I think.

    Quote Originally Posted by tod evans View Post
    Kind of out of place in a thread about masonry and pizza...........Sorry..
    Well there's no pizza here now so nice tools is a good substitute.
    "I am a bird"

  25. #262
    Quote Originally Posted by TomKat View Post
    I follow a family on youtube that moved to the Ozarks to go off the grid and become self sustaining. In this episode the built a brick pizza oven. Figured I would share it. I like all of their videos, very interesting. The old guy with the gun on his side, yeah, that's me in 25 years. Lol!

    Thats a pretty simple but decent oven but perfect to cook in just as any other, might not be so practical for pizza's though. Without the door it loses too much heat and with the door it's kinda hard to make a pizza a minute... Good for pretty much anything else though. Thanks for sharing.
    "I am a bird"

  26. #263
    Quote Originally Posted by TomKat View Post
    I follow a family on youtube that moved to the Ozarks to go off the grid and become self sustaining. In this episode the built a brick pizza oven. Figured I would share it. I like all of their videos, very interesting. The old guy with the gun on his side, yeah, that's me in 25 years. Lol!
    The young father who is shown carrying a plastic gun looks to be in his early 30's........

    Took me a bit since they don't tell ya' up front but it looks like their lil' farm is in Madison County Ar.

  27. #264
    Quote Originally Posted by tod evans View Post
    The young father who is shown carrying a plastic gun looks to be in his early 30's........

    Took me a bit since they don't tell ya' up front but it looks like their lil' farm is in Madison County Ar.
    Lol, Zac is younger than me. I was talking about his father-in-law, Tim, with the white beard. He has a revolver.
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  29. #265
    Quote Originally Posted by TomKat View Post
    Lol, Zac is younger than me. I was talking about his father-in-law, Tim, with the white beard. He has a revolver.
    It's bad when iron in leather is so common I don't even notice it........Well actually it's good...

    I do, for some reason, notice plastic guns?

  30. #266
    Quote Originally Posted by tod evans View Post
    It's bad when iron in leather is so common I don't even notice it........Well actually it's good...

    I do, for some reason, notice plastic guns?
    They melt when they get too close to the pizza oven...
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  31. #267
    I have decided that spring has arrived! We actually got some nice sunny weather yesterday. Not too much wind and several degrees above freezing. We may still get some very light freezing by night but I'll ignore that.

    I've put the tile-saw outside, ready to make any of the strange cut bricks that I couldn't saw in advance. I hope to get the exterior brick wall up to the same level as the supporting blocks in the middle. Today that is.

    I have quit using the frame with the piece of string as a guide, it took too much time to set up. Instead I now have a small X-Y bubble-level screwed onto a piece of hardwood plywood that I use while cementing bricks in place. I also made a jig that clamps on the interior walls and has a nail in the exact center. I attached an arm to this jig that I made sure was level. Then I measured up from the brick wall and scribed horizontal lines on the block wall, 58mm apart. 50 for the stone, 8 for the joint.

    These lines are my guide for the height of the bricks, then I use a level both as a straightedge to make sure the wall is flat as well as vertical. Then I just put the small level on top of the bricks and see if they need some tappin'.

    So yeah, winter is over, this project has been revived.
    "I am a bird"

  32. #268
    Quote Originally Posted by luctor-et-emergo View Post
    I have decided that spring has arrived! We actually got some nice sunny weather yesterday. Not too much wind and several degrees above freezing. We may still get some very light freezing by night but I'll ignore that.

    I've put the tile-saw outside, ready to make any of the strange cut bricks that I couldn't saw in advance. I hope to get the exterior brick wall up to the same level as the supporting blocks in the middle. Today that is.

    I have quit using the frame with the piece of string as a guide, it took too much time to set up. Instead I now have a small X-Y bubble-level screwed onto a piece of hardwood plywood that I use while cementing bricks in place. I also made a jig that clamps on the interior walls and has a nail in the exact center. I attached an arm to this jig that I made sure was level. Then I measured up from the brick wall and scribed horizontal lines on the block wall, 58mm apart. 50 for the stone, 8 for the joint.

    These lines are my guide for the height of the bricks, then I use a level both as a straightedge to make sure the wall is flat as well as vertical. Then I just put the small level on top of the bricks and see if they need some tappin'.

    So yeah, winter is over, this project has been revived.
    Yay!!!!
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  33. #269
    I got a bit further today, then had to run some errands and now I have to cook... Nonetheless it should be at the top of the keystones by the end of the week. Sadly I'll only have an hour a day to work on it, and it shouldn't rain. Maybe I'll cut some more bricks after dinner, we'll see.

    I'll try to snap a few pics and upload them tonight but my neighbors asked me to have a drink later.. I'm too busy lately.
    "I am a bird"

  34. #270


    No damage from freezing but I did notice that some lime-ish material must have been on the brush I used to clean the bricks before winter. Sucks but I can probably get that cleaned off later when I'm doing all the joints.

    Almost ready to pour the oven slab. Apart from the staining I'm quite pleased with how it's turning out.
    "I am a bird"

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