How to build a fire bowl

bobodu · May 29, 2010

Get a nice stainless salad bowl outta the cabinet and drill a hole big enough to thread in a 1/2 inch pipe nipple. Start adding expensive TEES,NIPPLES and CAPS. You can make this any shape or size you want. Drill some 1/8 inch holes wherever you want,but make them around a inch and a half to two inches apart.You may want to add a valve but I did not because I wanted to make sure that people had to shut it off at the propane tank. Add a 3/8 flare fitting to the underside of the bowl for a piece of 3/8 copper tubing. Bury your line. Connect this to a Harbor Freight $12.99 regulator and hose with another flare fitting. Hook this to a propane tank.
I think you can hook straight into a regulated NG line too.

Fill with some lava rock and light it!!!

This is the start of the table for the fire bowl. Got the top laid out but I need to go buy 100 danged screws...

Cooldmax · May 29, 2010

Lookin good. I can't wait to see the finished product. I might have to make one myself.

arrabil · May 29, 2010

Thats pretty cool. I was just thinking of something like that for our deck.

Egon · May 30, 2010

Looks good.

Does the bottom get hot?

Consider drilling a few holes in the bottom of the dish for drainage.

Maybe add a flame sensor shutoff valve!

Ductape · May 30, 2010

Have I been doing it wrong by pouring gasoline on a little wood in my bowl???

bobodu · May 30, 2010

beenthere · May 30, 2010

Looking good.

Now for some "shots" of it being used.

Looks like some walnut and yellow poplar wood in the table, maybe some maple ?

sodamo · May 31, 2010

Looks great. Where did you get the table plans?

David

bobodu · May 31, 2010

I have never used a set of plans for anything. The base of the table is just the mounting ring from the dish with four legs welded in place and the whole thing driven into the ground.
Wish I paid more attention to having two pieces of the same type of wood next to each other...but I do the same thing with Christmas lights....