 Aloha!
Aloha everyone here at the Forno Bravo forum! My name is Karl and I live on the big island of Hawaii in rainy Hilo. Ive been reading several books on ovens including The Book of Masonry Stoves and Bread Builders among others while considering the many different design options out there. I recently acquired 115 firebricks from an old sugar cane mill that will need some work cleaning off, but excited that I may be able to begin this project soon. They are an assortment of JayBee, Aztec, Morex, and Carnegie bricks, some with chipped edges, but they were the best that I could find. Firebrick for pizza ovens is tough to come buy here so I jumped at the chance to purchase these bricks, as Home Depot wants about $6-7 per brick plus tax to ship them in from the mainland!! ouch I am definitely on a budget and plan to build the oven on an off grid piece of land as part of a small stone cottage built up around a steel frame and metal roof. This idea is inspired by the book Living Homes and the many rocks laying about the property. One thing I have a lot of is Volcanic rock, and I was hoping to finish the outside of the oven with this rock too, I have already been collecting brick shaped pieces and setting them aside for the arch and frontispiece. I am also considering using regular clay brick for the dome, as I dont know if I will be able to find the additional firebricks at a reasonable price. I have never built an oven before, but I think that the tuscan style ovens mentioned on this site sound like they are for me. I joined this forum to learn more about ovens and to hopefully find a design that will work for me and I look forward to the learning process. Much aloha and thanks for those willing to share!
Karl  | 
07-01-2009, 05:37 AM
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