Outdoor oven base

[EddieJ]

I don't really have time to be making things like this, but for the last few years I have really wanted to build myself an outdoor pizza/bread oven. I don't like the coal bunker cross bomb shelter look that many people seem to sit the ovens on, so have opted for my own design in oak!

 

I can't do the roof until after the main oven build, which is a bit of a shame, but at least you can get the idea of what is planned.

 

The structure is far bigger than these photos make it look. It is 1,800mm x 1,800mm x 1,800mm and the posts and main beam section size is 200mm x 200mm. The top plate section size is 125mm x 125mm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once I have cast the raft for the stove to sit on, I shall then remove the top plates to make the build easier.

 

[muttley9050]

Very nice work Eddie, and rather lavish for an oven. We just sat ours on a big log! Must be nice to build a quality piece for yourself for a change.

What will you build the oven out of?

[muttley9050]

I'd also be interested to know your preferred method for reducing the girth of the top of the posts?

[EddieJ]

That looks brilliant Muttley.

 

Sadly I am owed a bloody lot of money from my latest job, so the build has already ground to a halt. If and when I do get paid, I'm going to spoil myself and go for a Pompeii design constructed with refractory bricks internally and stock bricks on the outside.

Obviously it will be insulated etc, and I'm going to be big pig and make it a 42" oven.

 

Ref the reducing of the posts, I did the first on my own bandsaw running an inch and quarter three skip blade, but it wasn't easy. The guy at the sawmill kindly cut the remaining three on a Woodmizer. Sadly there was one over cut, but it doesn't show and I've already almost forgotten about it.

 

In truth this has been far more work than I thought it was going to be, and I probably wouldn't have started it had I known. There is as much work in this as a regular big frame. I did cheat and use 16mm stainless rod to hold the top plates on though.

[delabodge]

me badly wants a pizza oven down the yard,,james and eddie,,how about a pow wow at mine??? talk wood and more wood,,,then build one,,payment in beer? and banter?

[muttley9050]

I'd be up for that clive, would have to be after the school hols though bud, can't get a minute to think at the moment!

Best you start stashing fire bricks asap.

[delabodge]

I'd be up for that clive, would have to be after the school hols though bud, can't get a minute to think at the moment!

Best you start stashing fire bricks asap.

 

deal!!! bring some logs we`ll mill em too!!

[muttley9050]

That's me biggest problem, getting hold of stuff to mill. The waste product from my job is brickdust and sawdust and you can't mill them. Roll on house selling so I can buy some woodland.

I do have a couple of dead yews to fell, may bring a couple of short lengths of that. Can only get 5ft in me little van though. Seems a bit wrong to cut em so short!

[EddieJ]

me badly wants a pizza oven down the yard,,james and eddie,,how about a pow wow at mine??? talk wood and more wood,,,then build one,,payment in beer? and banter?

 

If you want a quick and simple temporary oven, it doesn't get much simply than this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[rovers90]

That wood work looks fantastic! Looking forward to the end product, keep photos posted please. You should've taken the easy route some of my customers just took - they bought a Jamie Oliver outdoor pizza oven - £1200!!!!! That's a hell of a lot of pizzas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!