Combination WFO and smoker

[Damer419]

I would take it if it isnt in the trash heap yet for sure.......Thanks for the link to the thread, I hadnt seen it before

[woodsmoker]

Damer419 - Earlier post about jig is at https://community.fornobravo.com/for...ight-brick-saw. Hope link works OK. If not, re-post here and I'll upload pictures again. I don't think I've scrapped the jig yet. If I haven't, it's yours if you want it.

[Damer419]

Looks awesome............Congrats on the build. I just poured my slab yesterday and ready to build. I bought the HF saw over the weekend and am very interested in the jig you built. Any more information on how you made it and how it works??

[woodsmoker]

Remaining steps were metal fabrication for smoker area and oven doors, some stucco/paint on the exterior, and lighting. Progress on those front, but not quite done. Grass next spring.

[woodsmoker]

Continued with stucco shell on WFO and CMU, extended chimney, and started sequence of curing fires. First cooking attempt ended with more calzones or burnt piles on the oven floor than pizzas, but our skills have improved a bit since then.

[woodsmoker]

Finished entry arch, but not front facade, then wrapped in 3" ceramic blanket (2" + 1"), ~2" thickness of 5:1 perlite-cement, then a stucco shell.

[woodsmoker]

Continuation of dome went pretty well, but in retrospect should have paid more attention to staggering of joints. Entry accommodates smoke exit from smoker below on the left, so buttressed the right to match.

[woodsmoker]

Layed up most of firebrick for the dome free-hand, with prop sticks when slip angle became too steep. Firestop 50 as mortar for all joints. Entry arch was built on a form with full bricks, then ground them to desired profile on inside diameter and mating faces.

[woodsmoker]

Fabricated a little compound angle jig for Harbor Freight brick/tile saw. Available to anyone building a WFO and interested.

[woodsmoker]

Now the WFO starts - with a few regressions to finish other odds and ends.

[woodsmoker]

After hearth slab was cast, some more masonry work to close in outer face of firebox and provide for insulation around it.

[woodsmoker]

Placed floor for smoker chamber to drain to back left, continued masonry, and embedded some thermocouples and rack supports in the cook chamber. Insulated perlite/concrete mix over top of cook chamber, and nominal 5-1/2" concrete slab for top/hearth of WFO.

[woodsmoker]

Started to build CMU shell around firebox and smoking chamber.

[woodsmoker]

Decided on a compound arch for top of firebox, built over wood form boards shimmed to correct elevation, and floating metal frame for door.

[woodsmoker]

Foundation was nominal 6" slab reinforced with #4 bars at 12" on center each way. Good labor to encourage the boy to stay in school . . . Next started to build firebox for smoker.