Functional, Durable, Clean! Finally done with my eggs new home :)

saluki2007

ringkingpin Looking for ideas and wondering if you have any updates for us?

jhl192

You should be Egg-static!!  Fabulous.  

KingtUT

I guess it would do in a pinch.

lilwooty

Meh....it's okay I guess.  Just kidding, awesome job!  I think my next egg table is going to have a concrete top like yours.

ringkingpin

saluki2007 said:

ringkingpin Looking for ideas and wondering if you have any updates for us?

Sorry, kinda late to my own party.  Wasn't posting on here for a while.

It's stayed pretty much the same.  I think that I mentioned that I sunk something like 32 1" stainless rounds 8" long tapped and threaded on the back side.  Those were intended to mount, whatever.  I wound up getting some old porcelin shop lamp shades from an old local factory that has long since shut down.  These things are sweet, white on the reflector side and GREEN on the outside.  Not an exact match to the egg but not too far off either.  I made some new fixtures for those lights.  Then I got two pieces of stainless tube, I think 1.25" wide and bent 180 pieces at the end to something like 38"   I put two of them equally spaced and bolted them to the back.  It makes for a very clean and elegant lighting solution.  I'll post some pics.  I also got some 4" schedule 80 stainless tube and bent a piece to 190" radius and mounted two 6,000 watt electric heaters which are cantilevered out over the round dining table which is next to the egg kitchen.  It's all worked out very well and has proven to be quite functional!  Pics coming.

ringkingpin

Here is one of the two old lamps.  I only reused the shade itself:

after a couple minutes of cleaning: 

And the finished lights.  You can see there's just enough room to fit between the walls and you can see that they're bolted in to the stainless rounds.  Used stainless washers as shims to get them perfectly straight as the rough rock face is far from perfectly straight.

caliking

Those lights are sweet! Great addition to your eggdom.

grege345

@ringkingpin three questions if you don't mind. 1. How high is your backsplash. 2. What is the distance from back of hinge assembly to face of backsplash. 3. What kind of clearance do you have from dome to backsplash with dome open? Thanks.

GeorgeS

Very nicely done sir! Those lights are sweet!! =D>

QDude

Can you tell us more about the concrete top?  I am going to do one also but would like to do something creative like you did!

QDude

Bump!

What blocks did you use?  Were the caps on the top poured concrete or cut stone?

jbates67

I have been threatening to build an outdoor kitchen for my LBGE for some time. Words can't desribe how much I would desire mine to approach anything close to as nice of a job you did here. Very well done.

ringkingpin

Grege, I'll try to get those dims when I get a chance.  I probably have a drawing in my email I could post too.  

The concrete counter top was poured in place.  I might have another one made in a more controlled environment somewhere down the line.  I rolled some aluminum angle to the right diameters so that I could have perfect circles.  Once the concrete was hard, we used a FEIN tool to cut the rings in to four pieces and pulled them out.

Qdude, those are Indiana Limestone blocks, 8" square by whatever length.  Thanks for the kind words, I need to dig up some pics of the table heater, that was a fun one

erblove

Raised hand...yep I'm jealous.

QDude

Was the concrete top sanded, polished, and sealed?

Mim-the-beam

I am now officially "dating" concrete counter tops and outside kitchen.  I'll get my jar out to save up.

jollygreenegg

Awesome, really like the tabletop!