Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

[Mitchamus]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

Beautiful!!!!!!!

[geisen]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

A few more photos of the finished product.

[geisen]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

Well, 8 Months later.....she is finished. Fired her up last night and threw a little celabration party. yum.

[geisen]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

Fires every Weekend since the curing two months ago. Got the pizza perfected and the tapas are coming along. Working up to some retained heat cooking. Monday morning the oven was at 430deg F after the previous nights pizza party. looks like you can have too much insullation ;-) But a good problem to have.

[ThisOldGarageNJ]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

Nice Greg,,
Have you had any fires yet ??

[geisen]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

Scratch Coat mostly done and ready for the El Dorado Stone.

[mfiore]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

What or how did you cut your sheets of steel? Heavy duty tin-snips? Or a metal grinder blade?

-Dino

Dino, if you have a jigsaw, they make blades for sheet metal. It worked much better than snips for me, especially for curves. The edge is a little sharp after cutting, but was easily smoothed with a file (or a Dremel type wheel).

[geisen]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

your landing looks great.. nice job on the whole oven,, looking forward to seeing it finished
Cheers
Mark

thanks, Mark.
Believe me, no one wants to see it finished more than me......ok, maybe my wife. Rock facing going on today.
gg

[geisen]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

Dino
I traced the shape of the door onto the sheet metal I bought at HD. added a two inch border all around for the thickness of the door and cut with tin snips. Then using a long blade set of vice grip pliers, I bent and shaped the metal as you see in my pictures. I then bent a 2" wide strip of alum around the door and screwed it into place. Filled the tray with vermiculite and fit the two pieces together and used a lot of screws. TADA.

The pizza is coming out perfect. Using the Caputo Flour really makes a difference in texture and ease of use.

gg

[ThisOldGarageNJ]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

your landing looks great.. nice job on the whole oven,, looking forward to seeing it finished

Cheers
Mark

[Dino_Pizza]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

Greg, great to see all the good progress. Sounds like a good weekend ahead for you.

I really like your door. I was looking at 2x2 pieces of sheet metal add OSH yesterday wondering how to make a door with it. What or how did you cut your sheets of steel? Heavy duty tin-snips? Or a metal grinder blade?

Your pizza looks delicious. Or was it the wine that had me salivating??? -Dino

[geisen]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

Thanks Bill. It's probably going to end up looking a lot like yours. Scratch coat goes on this weekend.

[bbell]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

Greg, great looking hearth, door and exterior. Very impressive.
Bill

[geisen]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

Bought some Granite Pool Cowling and cut it to size for a Hearth. Also bought a 4ft piece of 3inch flat steel and used it to hold ash back while cooking. just bend it a few times so it stands up. Saw some Italian chefs using one on the travel channel. works great

[ThisOldGarageNJ]

Re: Greg's Pompeii 42" - San Diego

Looking great,,, Love the door...

cheers Mark