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  • Boogie-D
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    From my searches for 4 corner stands Neil2 and Kebwi have the design I am going for....

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  • gmchm
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    I've just read through you entire thread about the drama with your neighbor. I hope the taller pipe helps. Gary

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  • Archena
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    Re: 36" in Seattle

    Originally posted by kebwi View Post
    The oven is easily approached from the raised yard behind it. Notice the hearth is actually at ground height relative to the retaining wall.
    Ah - I wasn't sure from the picture.

    Originally posted by kebwi
    And they aren't herbs, they're just ground covers, probably not very tasty.
    Okay - someone had been talking about planting herbs on their oven - I must have gotten them confused.

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  • kebwi
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    Originally posted by Archena View Post
    Actually, I was thinking more about how tall you'd need to be to gather those herbs without climbing on the counter. Also, I can't shake the impression that I'm funny, despite ample evidence to the contrary... :blush:

    Kidding aside, it's a very nice oven!
    The oven is easily approached from the raised yard behind it. Notice the hearth is actually at ground height relative to the retaining wall.

    And they aren't herbs, they're just ground covers, probably not very tasty.

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  • kebwi
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    For the sake of the completeness of this thread, here's the new stove-pipe. The support pole is typical 3" ID (1/4" thick, 3.5" OD) steel conduit, 10' long, spray-painted with zinc-galvanizing paint and sunk about 2' into a concrete footing behind the oven. The stove-pipe is pretty unconventional, 7" as opposed to the more common 6" and 8" sizes, that's just what I came by on Craigslist. I put a cast-iron damper in the bottom section too. The whole thing has been rock-solid in some decent winds so I think it could easily accommodate another 2' section on top (the current installation is 11', but I have another 8' of 2' sections to play with...or sell), but I'm not sure I'll get around to making such an alteration, it's pretty tedious to get up that high to work on it...we'll see.

    I'm not particularly interested in aesthetic criticisms, thanks 'n all, I'm just maintaining the progress thread for posterity.

    And no I haven't fired it up yet. Seattle had over 40 days of no rain (we almost set a record). While the partial burn ban in effect doesn't strictly speaking preclude contained fires, it certainly feels rude to use it...and I'm swamped with work. Hopefully I'll get a free weekend toward the end of the month, calendar permitting.

    Cheers!

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  • Archena
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    Actually, I was thinking more about how tall you'd need to be to gather those herbs without climbing on the counter. Also, I can't shake the impression that I'm funny, despite ample evidence to the contrary... :blush:

    Kidding aside, it's a very nice oven!

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  • kebwi
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    Originally posted by Archena View Post
    Nice!

    You're tall, aren't you?
    Um, no, 5'10" - 5'11", shoes depending. I guess you're just saying it just looks like a high hearth.

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  • Archena
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    Nice!


    You're tall, aren't you?

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  • kebwi
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    First construction since last August. I finally stuccoed the concrete-block stand under the counter. There are a few spots I could add more stucco, but I may or may not bother (I probably will if a lazy Saturday rolls around). It's the same basic mixture I used for the top: Quikrete SBC, iron oxide color, and I went ahead and used my 50/50 premixed acrylic fortifier as the liquid agent even though water-proofing isn't necessary around the stand. I had the AF anyway, what else was I going to do with it?

    Unlike the top of the oven, where I aimed for a pretty smooth surface, the bottom has really heavy trowel scratches in it, admittedly hard to see in the photo.

    Cheers!
    Last edited by kebwi; 05-16-2011, 10:31 AM.

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  • Laurentius
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    If you chose a color that matches, the pigment are pretty true to form, even with the light colors.

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  • lwalper
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    Yeah, I've got the same "problem." I've got about 20# of Portland (grey) left over, but will probably get some type N (white) and brown sand and just skim the whole thing with it. I've also got three different adobe "earth" colors to mix in various concentrations so the whole thing will have a homogenous look overall. Right now it's bits of Portland and type N (grey and white).

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  • kebwi
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    Not a bad suggestion. Maybe I'll go really dark brown for the base. The colorant is so strong it's actually difficult to achieve light shades anyway. Thanks.

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  • stoveup
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    The difference in the base cement color will definitely affect the final color, but it's hard to know how much without doing a test mix and allowing it to completely set up. It will be difficult to get an exact match. You might consider going for a coordinated but significantly different color (or shade) for the base in order to avoid having it looking like an accidental mismatch.

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  • kebwi
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    I haven't been on the site in a long time. I haven't used the oven since Christmas and before that, since Thanksgiving (I have, however, perfect Reinhart's cinnamon rolls using the kitchen oven), but I'm getting ready to start using it for pizza for the summer, neighbor-issues not withstanding.

    Question: I never stuccoed the bottom half of my oven (the outer walls of the stand below the hearth), so it's just bare concrete block right now, as shown in previous photos. I got a new bag of surface bonding cement that I intend to use for the purpose, but unlike the same material I used for the oven, which was Quikrete's white version of the product, this bag is the gray version (against my request when I place the order, but oh well). I'm curious if anyone has any intuition how that difference will affect my iron oxide colorant requirements? An exact match to the oven is not at all required, but I would like to have some idea of how to hit my desired target? Do I need more colorant for the gray than for the white for a given final color?

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  • kebwi
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    None so far as in you better knock on some wood real fast dude.

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