Got some more work done on the new smoker over the weekend. I know I've already posted about this once in this thread, so if I'm out of place posting updates on the same project, feel free to delete this. Otherwise, here's the progress we made in just one day. (It doesn't look like much, but anyone that's done metal fab work will realize, it's a shit-ton of work for just two guys.) Here you can see where we cut out the holes for where we're going to insert the smoke pipes from the fire box below. The hole on the far left is going to be the drain hole that we'll plumb to fill and empty the water pan that's eventually going to sit in the bottom. This whole bottom section is going to be the fire box. We put in some angle iron about 7 inches up to rest the grate on so there's room underneath for both airflow and a spot for the ash to fall. Around the outside of the firebox we just welded on some spare scrap metal pieces lying around. Here you can see my shitty tack welds to piece together a couple of plates. (In my defense, it was my first time ever welding. I usually leave that part to my buddy, but I want to learn.) Here's a view of the inside of the firebox after we welded on all the pieces, minus the front. We're going to use some heavy duty diamond-plate for the front doors, so we didn't get it on yet. This is just an overall picture of where we stand so far. Next steps are going to be to stick weld all the pieces together on the firebox as well as filling in the space between the plates and the round ends. Then we'll put the doors on the front of the box.
my diy projects are kind of oddball. one of my favorites was creating a roof for a fairy house, where i used a lampshade, shims, stain, and a fuckton of glue to keep it together: Spoiler the rest of the fairy stuff i got off etsy. i've also decoupaged a couple of small tables, that i have been thrilled with. today was my biggest decoupage project. we have a coffee table that had already been cosmetically changed - we got it from a thrift store years ago and painted the blonde wood black. but it got grody over the years with the paint wearing off on the sides and other stains getting on it from craft projects, etc. so i spent months and months coming up with many, many ideas of how to transform it. the winning idea came to me a month or so ago and the result makes me tingle in my no no parts. before: Spoiler after: Spoiler i hope y'all can see it, since i'm linking from my fb page.
I know this thread kinda fizzled out, but there were a couple of people that were interested in how my newest smoker project was going to finish out, so I went ahead and put together a quick album of the final work we just completed over the weekend. Going to fire it up for the first time this weekend to see how it goes. http://imgur.com/a/0jHUh