Kemo's South Austin Pizza Oven

[Kemo]

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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!!

[Guerito]

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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]

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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.

[asudavew]

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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]

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I can't believe just how fast you're catching up! Looks great!!

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

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

[sarah h]

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Look out California and Canada, the Texans are catching up.

I can't believe just how fast you're catching up! Looks great!!

[Acoma]

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

[wlively]

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Steve

You are really flying now. Keep up the good work.

Look out California and Canada, the Texans are catching up.

[Kemo]

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Kemo

Would you mind explaining how the you use the stick as a guage? Do you use it for the radius of the brick circle, the angle of each brick in that row or both, or something else?

Thanks

Rich

basically, I use the line created by the bottom of the wood to determine how much mortar i use in the back. It creates the same angle between each brick all the way over the top. its centered and swivels 90 deg up and down and 360 degrees around in a circle. pretty neat tool built out of leftover 2x4 and a hinge
I hammer the brick down in the front and bring it flush with the course below it, right on the edge. so far its been a great tool. I fixed a smaller piece to hold the bricks in place since now they want to "slide" due to gravity.

[rcspott]

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Kemo

Would you mind explaining how the you use the stick as a guage? Do you use it for the radius of the brick circle, the angle of each brick in that row or both, or something else?

Thanks

Rich

[Ken524]

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Yeah! You're making a lot of headway. Nice looking arch.

[Kemo]

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and here is the last 3 pics, which puts me at course #8. BTW, I went to 1/3 bricks on course #7. Of course its at night and the pics are all grainy...but you get the idea

[Kemo]

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Ok... Things are starting to zip up pretty fast here. These are the pics of work I got done over the 3 day weekend. Veterans day was a holiday at my workplace. I got some good work done during this time. My arch held up, I cant say enough good stuff about the REFmix. Hard as a rock.

[Kemo]

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Looks like you have some good looking help there!
Barney

I have to agree...

so when are we going to plan an oven for your back yard?

[Kemo]

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Is the final attached photo Mr. or Mrs Kemo?

I only recruit the best of the best for manual labor on this oven!!

Shes not the Mrs, but shes the best thing thats come my way in a long long time... Ill do my best to keep her around