Glazing the pizza oven dome

After toiling at building the pizza oven, 'twas decreed it needed to look a bit swisher...

And so, and after a while of deliberation, a gloss-black crazy glazing was decided...

Looking good...

Front on...

Lovely in the early spring, with the cherry blosson...

The crazed tiling was done using cheapish Wickes bathroom/kitchen tiles -

Cosmopolitan Black, no less! 

Too rectangular, so, with a hammer , I did go (to the back of the tiles obvs, not the fromt)

To fix them, I mixed a pretty runny mortar mix - about 5-1 cement-builder's sand. 

The application was using my fingers to slop a blob of mortar onto the dome shell, Then push the tiling pieces into it

You get the gist

Some hours later...

It's worth cleaning off odd stray cement blobs - they dry before you know it...

And clean off excess mortar as you go...

Another angle. This is not yet cleaned...

I also painted the wooden door frontage black to match - this is fireproof paint for wood burners...

Overall, a good job - like a big black beetle shaped mirrorball.

Happy with this.