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I ended up painting the whole thing with Rustoleum brush on high heat paint (1200*)

Well it’s pretty much all buttoned up. Only thing left is to replace the thermometer. The stem broke off as I was tightening the wing nut! Now we just need to fire it up, season, and smoke!

Damn! This will be fun to watch!!:eek:

So I'm buttoning up the last of the details on my first smoker build and thinking about the finish. I've read a handful of threads about which paint people have used, whats easy to touch up, etc. I think I also read about people not even painting their firebox because it gets so hot most...

I leveled out the front shelf, added expanded steel for the shelf, fabbed up a cooking grate w angle and expanded steel, and fabbed up some spring handles. Closing in on it

Haha! Yes, thank you! I didn’t even tack it in place. Got the smokestack burned in and starting making the frame for the cooking grate this afternoon. Edit: I promise you all, it looks almost as crooked in real life as it does in that pic:D

Do you all think the deflector plate is good as it is? Should I have it drop a bit lower? Right now it’s about 5” from the bottom of the cook chamber.

Cut out and tacked the smoke stack together. Should put me about 20" higher than the top of the smoker in the end. I haven't cut the exhaust yet, so I'm just holding it to get a quick photo, hopefully you get the idea. Kind of learning as I go, hope it turns out well for my BIL!!

Ok so I got the side door cut and hung and tacked in the trim for the side and top door on the fire box. I cut out a piece for the deflector plate. How’s this look? The deflector plate sits at the top of the throat and finished about 5” from the bottom of the cook chamber. Do I need...

Thank you for the advice!! This will be a standard smoker. Not a reverse flow. The defector plate would just be a piece of plate to direct the heat downward? A baffle plate would run most of the length of the cook chamber and allow heat to rise through increasingly sized holes. Do I have this...

Hey fine folks, Thank you for having me over here at SMF. I'm so glad I found you guys when I did! I bought a welder this spring so I could build stuff for my truck, but my brother-in-law helps us out with the house so much I want to make him a little something.  He has a couple friends with...