[gjbingham]

I love dmun's posts. He knows tons about everything. I just checked out his homepage. Cool clocks!

Hawaii is really expensive, but I think if you want to do it right, I'd spend the money on the firebrick at a minimum. You can probably work around a lot of the other materials, but if the oven doesn't cook the way you want, then it may be a let down.

James recommends building it with normal bricks (rather than not building at all) if money is really an issue. If you could get your hands on some cheap used bricks on Craig's List, that might be a good way to go.