Howdy From SE Texas

[smokerman]

Nice to join you folks, there's a lot of good info here.

I played guitar for 50 years before the bass bug hit, but I've got it bad, now.

I always liked the sound of a Bass VI, so I bought a used Squier. That was it, I was hooked. 9 weeks later, I now have a Fender Am. Pro II P bass that I bought new, a Mesa TT 800 with 15" Mesa cab, paired that with a 2x10 Fender Rumble cab, and also a Rumble 100 combo.
I'm thinking I'd like a Jazz bass, but the electricity in my old house is so bad, I might not be able to use it for all the noise. Bass GAS is just as bad as guitar and amp GAS.

 

[5StringBlues]

Howdy from Houston. Please tell me about your barbecue.

 

[smokerman]

You mean the pit? I'm still working on learning how to cook barbecue. That was the second smoker I built, it started out to be a 250 gallon, but I decided it was too big. So I hacked about 20 inches off and it ended up like this.

Come to find out, that behemoth was too heavy to move around in the grass by myself, so I started hacking again, and came up with this.

Then, like a fool, I decided it was still too big, so I sold it. Bad move, that was probably the best cooker I ever built. I've built 6 or 7 smokers, and a few small Santa Maria pits, so far.

 

[smokerman]

Here's some brisket that turned out pretty good.

 

[5StringBlues]

Nice welding, my friend

 

[smokerman]

The guy that bought my last Santa Maria sent me this action pic:

 

[FRoss6788]

Here's some brisket that turned out pretty good.

Nice smoke ring and bark!

 

[FRoss6788]

You've got some talent in grill making sir!

Nice work!

If I lived closer, I'd be commissioning a smoker...

 

[smokerman]

Nice smoke ring and bark!

Yep, that was one of the better ones. I gave up on cooking brisket, it takes too dang long. I do pork loin now, 2 and a half hours, instead of 12.

 

[smokerman]

You've got some talent in grill making sir!

Nice work!

If I lived closer, I'd be commissioning a smoker...

Thanks! This was the prettiest one I did, I named it The Cadillac. A Dallas Cowboys fan bought it.

 

[FRoss6788]

Yep, that was one of the better ones. I gave up on cooking brisket, it takes too dang long. I do pork loin now, 2 and a half hours, instead of 12.

C'mon man!

You don't like getting up at 5am to throw on a 15lb. pork butt?

That's livin' baby

 

[smokerman]

I built this one for my neighbor. He cooks some mean BBQ, and he couldn't stand seeing all those smokers I was building, he had to have one.

 

[smokerman]

I need to learn how to build some of this stuff. Or at least play it.

 

[edot3021]

Those are some great looking smokers.

 

[smokerman]

Those are some great looking smokers.

Thanks, edot!