Bathurst Build 100cm ish

[SpottedFrog]

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some more photos

[SpottedFrog]

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some photos from earlier in the build

[SpottedFrog]

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where we are up to now?. about to start mortaring.

[Greenman]

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Looks good Rosemary - all onwards and upwards from there. Given the quality of the details shown I am sure the rest will work out very well. Good luck with it.

[brissie]

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looking good Rosemary,

It looks like you have a lot of thermal mass in the base tiles and bricks. The oven should be good bread oven, but will take some time to heat the base to pizza temperatures.

Cheers,

Steve.

[cobblerdave]

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G'day Rosemary
I was wondering how things were progressing?
Regards dave

[SpottedFrog]

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very slowly, have the first chain ready to mortar but now the weather is against us, cold and wet and frosty. Kids have been a bit of a handful over last few months and Hubby was training and competing in parachuting before that, oh well i can't eat cheese atm because of the baby anyway, so don't know how well i could restrain myself if hot hubby pizzas were coming out of the oven all the time. boo hoo but it isn't forever.

Thanks for asking though

[oasiscdm]

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Nice work Rosemary take your time there is no hurry when creating your own masterpiece.

[SpottedFrog]

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Thanks Colin

[SpottedFrog]

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Well hubby is back from the world championships and things are rolling again. Following Colin's lead I have just picked up the fancy bricks I painted. Very happy. Now if only I could load the photo. Maybe in the morning.

[SpottedFrog]

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Finally it worked, one for the back inside of the dome and one for each side of the entrance

[cobblerdave]

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G'day
There fantastic!
How did you do them? The colours are great, there heatproof I take it
Regards dave

[david s]

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Finally it worked, one for the back inside of the dome and one for each side of the entrance

Nice one. A little help from M C Escher by the look of it. If you used normal paint, either acrylic or oil, I would doubt whether it will last too long.Probably really need to paint it with glazes and fire it for a permanent solution.

[SpottedFrog]

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Don't fret Dave I'm a potter from way back. These were fired to 1200•C, so they will stay the distance. I wonder how many people have made that mistake though? He he he.

[david s]

Re: Bathurst Build 100cm ish

Don't fret Dave I'm a potter from way back. These were fired to 1200?C, so they will stay the distance. I wonder how many people have made that mistake though? He he he.

Rosemary,
Now I'm really interested. How did you achieve such bright colours with stoneware glazes?

Dave