Random Thought Thread

[SwarthyGnome]

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Does this help?

Immensely. Thank you.
No way I would have seen that without the circle.
I zoomed in too!

 

[oldmanwilly]

Exactly. Just like everyone thinks that everyone in WV dates their relative. Thats everywhere.....Well mostly I guess just WV. LOL

Idk man, all this talk about Appalachia when the Roosevelts kept their cards pretty close to the chest...

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

 

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[Murphjd25]

You big tease!!!

 

[SharpBits]

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Comp Chopper or something new?

 

[yoko]

Comp Chopper or something new?

Looks like the new K20 maybe

(Probably not... I'm usually wrong lol)

 

[Casinostocks]

Comp Chopper V2.0!

 

[ferider]

Every house needs a center-piece: the fireplace.

We are getting a "Kachelofen", a tiled masonry stove. If you ever had a beer or dinner in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland, chances are that you saw one, they are very common (stock photo):

They have a masonry core, and are covered with tiles. The house I grew up in had one, and I remember my mom feeding it in winter. On the eve of Dec 6 (St Nicklaus), we put our boots under it, and they were filled with cookies and chocolate in the morning .... a Kachelofen can be fed with coal or wood, has over 700 degrees at the core, and stays warm on the outside throughout the night. Typically, a Kachelofen is in a room's corner and heating multiple rooms.

Building ovens is a trade in Germany. There are a couple of trade masters in the US, who travel around the country ... Master Eric, from Minnesota, built our oven last week with his team. He collaborates with a tile maker who pre-made the oven tiles that he brought with.

Here is the design (shared this last year already):

The tiles that Eric brought: Bavarian colors (white and blue) for the kitchen, and green for the dining room:

First they built the core:

There is a complicated air-tunnel system around the burner to heat up the center, and warm the surface.

Then, the core is wrapped with glass fiber, to allow expansion and contraction

Then comes a layer of small bricks and the tiles

And finally, the tiles are grouted.

The finished product from the kitchen side. Note in color the Salvador Dali tiles that my mother-in-law (bless her heart) gave us as wedding gift in 2002.

And the dining room side with Eric and his team:

 

[AR-Trvlr]

Every house needs a center-piece: the fireplace.

We are getting a "Kachelofen", a tiled masonry stove. If you ever had a beer or dinner in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland, chances are that you saw one, they are very common (stock photo):

They have a masonry core, and are covered with tiles. The house I grew up in had one, and I remember my mom feeding it in winter. On the eve of Dec 6 (St Nicklaus), we put our boots under it, and they were filled with cookies and chocolate in the morning .... a Kachelofen can be fed with coal or wood, has over 700 degrees at the core, and stays warm on the outside throughout the night. Typically, a Kachelofen is in a room's corner and heating multiple rooms.

Building ovens is a trade in Germany. There are a couple of masters in the US, who travel around the country ... Ours, Eric, is from Minnesota. He and his team built ours last week. He collaborates with a tile maker who pre-made our oven tiles.

Here is the design (shared this last year already):

The tiles that Eric brought: Bavarian colors (white and blue) for the kitchen, and green for the dining room:

First they built the core:

There is a complicated air-tunnel system around the burner to heat up the center, and warm the surface.

Then, the core is wrapped with glass fiber, to allow expansion and contraction

Then comes a layer of small bricks and the tiles

And finally, the tiles are grouted.

The finished product from the kitchen side. Note the Salvador Dali color tiles that my mother-in-law (bless her heart) gave us as wedding gift in 2002.

And the dining room side with Eric and his team:

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That is *very* cool!

 

[ferider]

Thank you !

 

[Mendoman]

Every house needs a center-piece: the fireplace.

We are getting a "Kachelofen", a tiled masonry stove. If you ever had a beer or dinner in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland, chances are that you saw one, they are very common (stock photo):

They have a masonry core, and are covered with tiles. The house I grew up in had one, and I remember my mom feeding it in winter. On the eve of Dec 6 (St Nicklaus), we put our boots under it, and they were filled with cookies and chocolate in the morning .... a Kachelofen can be fed with coal or wood, has over 700 degrees at the core, and stays warm on the outside throughout the night. Typically, a Kachelofen is in a room's corner and heating multiple rooms.

Building ovens is a trade in Germany. There are a couple of trade masters in the US, who travel around the country ... Master Eric, from Minnesota, built our oven last week with his team. He collaborates with a tile maker who pre-made the oven tiles that he brought with.

Here is the design (shared this last year already):

The tiles that Eric brought: Bavarian colors (white and blue) for the kitchen, and green for the dining room:

First they built the core:

There is a complicated air-tunnel system around the burner to heat up the center, and warm the surface.

Then, the core is wrapped with glass fiber, to allow expansion and contraction

Then comes a layer of small bricks and the tiles

And finally, the tiles are grouted.

The finished product from the kitchen side. Note in color the Salvador Dali tiles that my mother-in-law (bless her heart) gave us as wedding gift in 2002.

And the dining room side with Eric and his team:

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Awesome! I love it

 

[Mike157]

Exactly. Just because we eat a lot of crawfish, gator, and nutria doesn’t mean we eat roadkill.

I lived, and worked in Mississippi for a couple of years, in my younger days. My neighbor would do crawfish boils every once in a while. Pretty darn tasty. My favorite lunch, at a little bar out in the sticks, was a catfish poorboy (and a beer).

 

[jlauffer]

Every house needs a center-piece

That's a weird CPK display case. I mean, it's pretty big, but doesn't seem to have much space for CPKs.

 

[yoko]

Every house needs a center-piece: the fireplace.

We are getting a "Kachelofen", a tiled masonry stove. If you ever had a beer or dinner in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland, chances are that you saw one, they are very common (stock photo):

They have a masonry core, and are covered with tiles. The house I grew up in had one, and I remember my mom feeding it in winter. On the eve of Dec 6 (St Nicklaus), we put our boots under it, and they were filled with cookies and chocolate in the morning .... a Kachelofen can be fed with coal or wood, has over 700 degrees at the core, and stays warm on the outside throughout the night. Typically, a Kachelofen is in a room's corner and heating multiple rooms.

Building ovens is a trade in Germany. There are a couple of trade masters in the US, who travel around the country ... Master Eric, from Minnesota, built our oven last week with his team. He collaborates with a tile maker who pre-made the oven tiles that he brought with.

Here is the design (shared this last year already):

The tiles that Eric brought: Bavarian colors (white and blue) for the kitchen, and green for the dining room:

First they built the core:

There is a complicated air-tunnel system around the burner to heat up the center, and warm the surface.

Then, the core is wrapped with glass fiber, to allow expansion and contraction

Then comes a layer of small bricks and the tiles

And finally, the tiles are grouted.

The finished product from the kitchen side. Note in color the Salvador Dali tiles that my mother-in-law (bless her heart) gave us as wedding gift in 2002.

And the dining room side with Eric and his team:

View attachment 2892374

Super awesome I like it!!!!!

 

[beeinak]

Every house needs a center-piece: the fireplace.

We are getting a "Kachelofen", a tiled masonry stove. If you ever had a beer or dinner in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland, chances are that you saw one, they are very common (stock photo):

They have a masonry core, and are covered with tiles. The house I grew up in had one, and I remember my mom feeding it in winter. On the eve of Dec 6 (St Nicklaus), we put our boots under it, and they were filled with cookies and chocolate in the morning .... a Kachelofen can be fed with coal or wood, has over 700 degrees at the core, and stays warm on the outside throughout the night. Typically, a Kachelofen is in a room's corner and heating multiple rooms.

Building ovens is a trade in Germany. There are a couple of trade masters in the US, who travel around the country ... Master Eric, from Minnesota, built our oven last week with his team. He collaborates with a tile maker who pre-made the oven tiles that he brought with.

Here is the design (shared this last year already):

The tiles that Eric brought: Bavarian colors (white and blue) for the kitchen, and green for the dining room:

First they built the core:

There is a complicated air-tunnel system around the burner to heat up the center, and warm the surface.

Then, the core is wrapped with glass fiber, to allow expansion and contraction

Then comes a layer of small bricks and the tiles

And finally, the tiles are grouted.

The finished product from the kitchen side. Note in color the Salvador Dali tiles that my mother-in-law (bless her heart) gave us as wedding gift in 2002.

And the dining room side with Eric and his team:

View attachment 2892374

Absolutely awesome.

 

[beeinak]

That's a weird CPK display case. I mean, it's pretty big, but doesn't seem to have much space for CPKs.

He is not showing his knife/gun safe room.

 

[ferider]

Super awesome I like it!!!!!

Absolutely awesome.

Thanks, guys !

He is not showing his knife/gun safe room.

No idea what you’re talking about

 

[JJ_Colt45]

Every house needs a center-piece: the fireplace.

We are getting a "Kachelofen", a tiled masonry stove. If you ever had a beer or dinner in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland, chances are that you saw one, they are very common (stock photo):

They have a masonry core, and are covered with tiles. The house I grew up in had one, and I remember my mom feeding it in winter. On the eve of Dec 6 (St Nicklaus), we put our boots under it, and they were filled with cookies and chocolate in the morning .... a Kachelofen can be fed with coal or wood, has over 700 degrees at the core, and stays warm on the outside throughout the night. Typically, a Kachelofen is in a room's corner and heating multiple rooms.

Building ovens is a trade in Germany. There are a couple of trade masters in the US, who travel around the country ... Master Eric, from Minnesota, built our oven last week with his team. He collaborates with a tile maker who pre-made the oven tiles that he brought with.

Here is the design (shared this last year already):

The tiles that Eric brought: Bavarian colors (white and blue) for the kitchen, and green for the dining room:

First they built the core:

There is a complicated air-tunnel system around the burner to heat up the center, and warm the surface.

Then, the core is wrapped with glass fiber, to allow expansion and contraction

Then comes a layer of small bricks and the tiles

And finally, the tiles are grouted.

The finished product from the kitchen side. Note in color the Salvador Dali tiles that my mother-in-law (bless her heart) gave us as wedding gift in 2002.

And the dining room side with Eric and his team:

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Very cool Roland! Both of my mom's parents were born in Denmark and I remember a few old pictures from her grandparents home over there that had a stove of similar stlye in them.

 

[JJ_Colt45]

I lived, and worked in Mississippi for a couple of years, in my younger days. My neighbor would do crawfish boils every once in a while. Pretty darn tasty. My favorite lunch, at a little bar out in the sticks, was a catfish poorboy (and a beer).

+1 I have a friend in Mississppi and I always loved getting a catfish poorboy when I got down there to visit.

My buddy married a creole woman. Her grandma was a just a tiny woman (maybe 5' tall on a good day in boots), but she scared the crap out of him. She always told him she'd put a hex on him if he didn't treat her granddaughter right. I'd give him a hard time about it and he'd say "man don't even joke about it, that s*** ain't funny!" But it kinda was lol.