Kemo's South Austin Pizza Oven

[asudavew]

Originally Posted by Kemo

the whole gravity thing is SLOWIN ME DOWN, YA'LL!

but here is up thru Course 9 currently at 1/4 bricks

Looking good!

How's the back holding up?

You should be firing that thing soon.

No turkey for Thanksgiving, but you should be ready for Christmas ham!

[Kemo]

Originally Posted by asudavew

Looking good!

How's the back holding up?

You should be firing that thing soon.

No turkey for Thanksgiving, but you should be ready for Christmas ham!

Dave,
my back has been slowly adapting to the stooping and what not. At first I thought I was gonna die, but my back eventually quit complaining so much. it still gets a bit sore after stooping over the oven for 2hrs

I had hoped to be able to cook a pizza by next weekend, I dont think Ill be able to hit that mark.

[Guerito]

Originally Posted by Acoma

Texans rarely see change in weather. You can go year round

I don’t know about that Acoma! I froze my butt off in the snow one winter at Fort Hood!

Guerito

[Kemo]

Originally Posted by Guerito

I don’t know about that Acoma! I froze my butt off in the snow one winter at Fort Hood!

Guerito

I hate cold weather...anything below 50deg is COLD!!

[asudavew]

Originally Posted by Kemo

Dave,

I had hoped to be able to cook a pizza by next weekend, I dont think Ill be able to hit that mark.

Don't rush the curing my friend.
I think that I pushed mine tooooooo much and toooooooo fast.

Cracks suck! Trust me

And it's supposed to cool off tonight and tomorrow. (At least here.) But I imagine the cold front will be headed your way.....

Your oven is looking great!

[Acoma]

I have to laugh about the cold in Texas though. Think about it this way, in Canada they are laughing at me, even those from the Swiss Alps. As long as we dress right and keep working through the cold we get to smile when it is done. All you Texans deserve 100% respect, actually, every single one of us that has started and is working towards the finish. Hard work no matter what one thinks. I cut my hand good just doing the wall.

[Kemo]

Originally Posted by Acoma

I have to laugh about the cold in Texas though.

I understand completely, but just the opposite. Like in the summer when a heat wave hits the north and its 88 degrees! It was 88 deg this week

[Kemo]

ok...here is where im at as of today.

last night I did the 10th course with the 1/4 bricks and got some really big gaps in there. So I decided for the remainder of the courses ill use some 1"x1" finger bricks that I cut from scrap the same depth as the rest of the bricks. The pictures show the first of the 1x1s that I cut. I decided to pull out the measuring stick and "free hand" it from here. So far, I havent had any major brick slides (knock on wood) and I think that tonight I can get the last course of 1x1s in there and start eyeballing a keystone of some sort.

[asudavew]

Originally Posted by Kemo

1x1s in there and start eyeballing a keystone of some sort.

I'm eyeballing he keystone already!



Looks like you're there from my perspective.

Great work.
So much better than mine at the same point.

[Acoma]

Kemo, are you going to finish with the Ken version keystone?