Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

[geisen]

All
Thank you for the encouragement. Can't wait to close it up. Would love to be cooking pizza by august.

Blacknoir
Happy to pass it along. I will add your name to my list. When I finish, I will work my way down the list and see who is ready next.

Greg

[geisen]

9th course complete. Hole is a perfect 16" round. two or three courses to go before the plug.....yea!!

[eprante]

Hey Greg,
I thought that you were going to finish it up after I left. I got the wine racks installed then depleted my supply appropriately. Thanks for the hands on instruction.
The brick work looks excellent ( especially the last course). Thanks again for the time and guidance. Let me know when you get the fire up to 500-600 degrees, I will bring some bread and wine.
Eric

[exceloven]

Greg,
Perfect 16" circle.......show off! Just messing wioth you it looks great I'm just jealous. I would love to see it in person some time. You will enjoy cooking as much as the build, I guarantee that.

Mark

[geisen]

Mark
Drop me a line when you have the time. Always happy to except free labor. ;-)
GG

[Mitchamus]

looks great - well done!

[geisen]

Thanks, Mitch

Last night I could see the end of the dome in sight....unfortunately I also saw the end of the Mortar Bag !!! ARGGHHH. James, another order of Mortar please . Mortar seems to be the Pizza oven equivalent of Beer, never seem to have enough on hand.

Anyway, thought I'd be able to finish it over the 4th but now I gotta wait for the FEDEX guy to bring me my next fix.

Here are the shots of unfinished 10th row.

So close.

[geisen]

And a couple externals.

[bimbo]

mate awsome build so far, I can only hope mine is half as neat. I also love the flared entry.

Cheers
James

[blacknoir]

Lookin really good! I'm using the mortar recipe and I was looking at my bag of sand today and wondering if I'd make it through the weekend.. sucks to run out eh? Luckily I ordered plenty of fireclay.. the rest is readily available at my local box store.