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Post by minesamojito on Mar 28, 2012 20:17:36 GMT
Hi guys, go on show us your tools!  here's my homemade efforts  Uploaded with ImageShack.usA mop, a bristle brush and a coal shovel, all installed onto long broom handles Works a treat, what do you guys use? Cheers Marcus |
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Post by Fat Bob on Mar 28, 2012 21:59:52 GMT
Them's long 'andles..
I really like the picture - 3 tools and three textures of background. I could frame it and put it on the wall. The shadow of the oven glove bottom right adds some mystery. The anally retentive side of me would air brush the brown top right.
The more I look at it the more I see - pure poetry...
We are too mean to buy brush 'andles we nick strange branches from the forest.
There is an enigma what look like broad shadows from the handles cannot be - no they are just a long distance from the implements/
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Post by minesamojito on Mar 29, 2012 18:47:06 GMT
Cheers FB, glad you like the pic, makes a change from food  Come on then guys n gals, let's see what tools you're packing! Cheers Marcus |
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Post by cannyfradock on Apr 1, 2012 12:24:53 GMT
As many people know ...normally I haven't got a pot to p*ss in, so here is my homemade pizza peel made from a cut down flan dish  I used a metal spatula and riveted it on to the underside  Stop laughing.......it's not funny!!! Terry |
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Post by Fat Bob on Apr 1, 2012 18:42:25 GMT
What a handle length contrast - me thinks you are rich with those potted plants and a miniature bird cage on a hurling stone.
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Post by Fat Bob on Apr 1, 2012 18:44:21 GMT
What a handle length contrast - me thinks you are rich with those potted plants and a miniature bird cage on a hurling stone.
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Post by cannyfradock on Apr 2, 2012 9:05:00 GMT
I knocked that up for pizza trials in my domestic oven. My first oven ...out my back yard was built on a shoestring. It was a pure guesstimate as I hadn't starting using a PC then so I lacked knowledge and it lacked the vital insulation. I've been threatening to demolish the dome and re-build it for the last 2 years.......maybe this year I'll get round to it. Terry Attachments:
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Post by Calaf on Apr 2, 2012 9:28:07 GMT
I bought a 14 inch peel on a long handle from drinkstuff.com. Works well for getting the pizza in and out but no good for turning, even with an 18 inch doorway.
My 'turner' is a very fancy affair, a broom handle with a nail driven through it.
Oven brush is a brass bristle and steel scraper job, drinkstuff.com again.
I made a tool to blow away the ash from the cooking area out of a wardrobe rail cutoff, flattened at one end.
I also filched mother-in-law's bellows.
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Post by minesamojito on Apr 2, 2012 20:28:14 GMT
If they're anything like my MIL's then they are a fine set of bellows!
Cheers
Marcus
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Post by Fat Bob on Apr 3, 2012 0:03:38 GMT
I knocked that up for pizza trials in my domestic oven. My first oven ...out my back yard was built on a shoestring. It was a pure guesstimate as I hadn't starting using a PC then so I lacked knowledge and it lacked the vital insulation. I've been threatening to demolish the dome and re-build it for the last 2 years.......maybe this year I'll get round to it. Terry It's a canny looking oven why not add insulation around it rather than demolishing? |
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Post by cannyfradock on Apr 6, 2012 22:15:41 GMT
....I honestly can't remember if I put insulation under the reclaimed red brick hearth. The height is also too low so I could still start from scratch but lay thermolite blocks on top of the old slab and carry on from there. Only fired it twice....first time (inexperience) I bought some logs from the petrol station...they were crap...full of knots, couldn't split them so couldn't get enough heat in the oven. Second time was after a cold winter and I burned some off-cuts of timber perlins. The oven was wet but fired up like a rocket......needless to say the oven cracked quite badly due to cold and wet....then hotter than the devils own festering arsehole!!! I tried to peer inside from about 2 feet away and lost my eyebrows and eyelashes.....the inside didn't crack.   This is what I'd like to build....  As you see my sketchup skills are crap Terry |
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Post by twobecks on Apr 7, 2012 11:01:56 GMT
Terry - Not a bad effort in SketchUp! As you say, we are all still learning! I modelled my whole garden, grass, trees, patio, garage, tables, chairs and including various pots with fruit bushes in. Then I had to step back and realise I was probably in too deep when I started modelling the Ingersoll padlock on the garage. Practice makes perfect, just don't go too far...
I was going to make up some tools from long broom handles and somehow stylishly attach a brush, an ash pan, a mop and a turner (probably a 6" nail through the end!). I'll check out drinkstuff.com just incase they can provide a better solution than I can build... ;-)
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Post by dougclay on Apr 22, 2012 21:34:42 GMT
Tools Wooden peel from the thinnest chopping board I could find still about 1cm thick, tapered at the end. I got a bit carried away the first few uses and used it to push the embers back... not a good idea with a wooden peel now it's used as a transfer peel... dusted with semolina and loaded up in the kitchen and used to deliver the pizza to the oven floor. mounted on half a broom handle.  Metal peel, made by my buddy with a riveting gun consisting of metal sheet riveted to a lawn edging tool. it is rectangular atm, but I am planning to round it of at the end. Attached to the other half of the broom handle.  One Dutch hoe bent over to push the hot coals to the back. One wooden Bassine brush, being fibre it doesn't melt like plastic, or leave a copper coloured sheen on the oven floor like the copper bbq brush I tried... I actually expected the bassine to burn away quite quick but it seems to be faring well and when it does eventually burn down it was only £1. Very effective stiff bristles.. One pair "long leather oven gloves" aka welding gauntlets. They cover my entire forarm, with insulation inside... One is branded with the shape of the thermocouple that I picked up 10 mins after it had been removed from the fire...  These are also the best gardening gloves I ever owned... not bad considering they cost buttons on ebay... Gadgets IR Thermometer with pointless built in laser pointer... max 550C Dual input k-type Digital Thermometer max 1300C Meat probe thermocouple, 2x regular k-types, 2x hi temp (1200C) k-types. Digital moisture meter, sometimes wood looks drier than it actually is... Various bi-metal strip thermometers max 450C |
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