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Re: 36" build in Tallahassee - AKA Bruce's Folly
Russell,
Thanks for your joining in. Second point first, I probably haven't communicated this in my posts, but I am actually confident that I will be able to build a working oven. Might be false confidence, but it sure looks to me that as long as the dome supports itself and is insulated it will be functional. Still, I am hoping you and others in this community will share their hard earned expertise so that my list of things I would like to have done differently will be short. Looking at the setback that includes a 12" shelf made me wonder if the shelf was all that useful. The problem is that I won't know unless I build it and see if it makes sense. I put it into my initial plan because that seemed common in the builds on this site. As Dave keeps pointing out, this is my build and as you might guess from my stand, I may go my own way. At the same time, it was the feedback I received from my initial proposal (in retrospect not a good one) that led to a stand that I could build myself from my wheelchair and is still sufficiently solid.
Having said all that, I suspect my dome will be fairly standard. I plan to at least try tapering the bricks to keep the joints tight on the inner surface, but if this proves too hard I will go with the 1/2 brick and lots of mortar approach.
I skimmed your build, but couldn't tell the distance from the front of your shelf to the cooking surface. How useful has the front counter been and would you change your setback?
Right now, I am leaning toward reducing the setback to 15" from the front edge of the stand to the inner opening. This would likely place the outer arch only a few inches back from the front edge.
Again, thanks for the reply. I am fully convinced that this is one of the most consistently supportive communities on the web. Bruce
Russell,
Thanks for your joining in. Second point first, I probably haven't communicated this in my posts, but I am actually confident that I will be able to build a working oven. Might be false confidence, but it sure looks to me that as long as the dome supports itself and is insulated it will be functional. Still, I am hoping you and others in this community will share their hard earned expertise so that my list of things I would like to have done differently will be short. Looking at the setback that includes a 12" shelf made me wonder if the shelf was all that useful. The problem is that I won't know unless I build it and see if it makes sense. I put it into my initial plan because that seemed common in the builds on this site. As Dave keeps pointing out, this is my build and as you might guess from my stand, I may go my own way. At the same time, it was the feedback I received from my initial proposal (in retrospect not a good one) that led to a stand that I could build myself from my wheelchair and is still sufficiently solid.
Having said all that, I suspect my dome will be fairly standard. I plan to at least try tapering the bricks to keep the joints tight on the inner surface, but if this proves too hard I will go with the 1/2 brick and lots of mortar approach.
I skimmed your build, but couldn't tell the distance from the front of your shelf to the cooking surface. How useful has the front counter been and would you change your setback?
Right now, I am leaning toward reducing the setback to 15" from the front edge of the stand to the inner opening. This would likely place the outer arch only a few inches back from the front edge.
Again, thanks for the reply. I am fully convinced that this is one of the most consistently supportive communities on the web. Bruce
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