Don't ever sell yourself short sir, your work is great, thanks!

Thank's a lot for sharing your work. I am just about to realise the same project. Everything except the firebox is ready. Unfortunately, I still have to save up for a while before I can afford the steel for that. It's remarkable how similar the individual steps are (sorry for my bad English).

Propeller wheel slot cut air intake on the door is a must 🍻

Just happened onto this video and I was totally pulled in. Full on industrial light and magic goin on. Truly bad-ass. This guy must be up in Canada since he was talking about Princess Auto. Pretty cool shop sir.

Gonna be honest I didn’t have the patience to watch the whole video without skipping around… so I couldn’t imagine sand blasting for 5 hours haha. That’s a beast of a smoker. Hope you and your fam get to enjoy it for much longer than it took for you to make!

Great use of an old compressor tank. We shared this video on our homemade tools forum last week 😎

I have a 60 gallon compressor tank and I have long intended to turn it into a smoker. Watching this I realized that it is a lot bigger project than I imagined. Some good ideas here. I might tackle it, after I knock out the list ahead of this.😅

That is an amazing build my Brother. I am guessing the paint color will be a nice Milwaukee red, white, black combination….👍🏻

A plus to the horizontal surface on the firebox is the extra cooking or warming area, great for sauces, mops, etc.

Looks really good. I built mine over 10 years ago with two 55 gallon drums. I built my fire box out of thin sheet steel in an angle iron cube. I insulated the bottom with concrete and the top with rock wool. I think you will be fine with with 3/16" but would recommend fire bricks laid vertically in the firebox. Check out how they lay fire bricks inside a wood furnace, just weld an angle iron on the wall, put the vertical fire bricks in first, then put the floor in second. Mine being over 12 years old, I'd like to build a heavier one soon.

I am never going to make one of those but loved watching you make it and the thought process behind each step. I find there is a lot of unconscious learning watching makers, things that I find myself doing but I don't know/remember where I picked it up, in this project I had a conscious learning as well - the trick with the paper on the pipe to get a straight cut is genius and I will use that. Thank-you.

I'd probably put a lip around the top of that fire box and use it as a griddle plate. Leave a gap or notch somewhere to let grease drain. Nice build! 👍

Sir wonderfull build thanks for sharing it. I haunt the princess auto in Sudbury Ontario. My wife makes me give up my credit cards before we go in. Boys need to be watched over. For my first build I checked my ideas with feldons bbq calculater. The folks on built not bought on face book recomended it. It saved me a lot of time. I made a reverce flow out of an old 500 pound propane tank. I ended up putting a baffel between the fire box and cook chamber. Now you need to make home brew. Youll never get rid of family then. Be well.

Amazing build, I was mesmerized watching you build it. I'd love to upgrade my small offset to something of this caliber.

amazing build and great craftsmanship, a little advice from someone whos built two of these so far, grinding the paint off is a ball ache, i learnt that the first time around, stick to a chemical paint stripper, SOOO MUCH QUICKER

I was going to build one of these about 10 years ago. Figured up the cost of materials and many many hours it just wasn’t worth it. I bought one lightly used off Craigslist for $300 and retail was $1200 new. I’ve smoked so many briskets, pork butts, turkeys, salmon, beef jerky, chicken etc. only gripe I have is mine burns a lot of wood. I should try to insulate or use firebricks to help with heat. Nice job and I bet you’re proud of your work!

Mr. J. You did an amazing work on this smoker. I have own two of these smokers you will love it and yes I would put louvres down low on the door of the fire box. Thanks for sharing.

Came out great! Loved your enthusiasm and joy over this project! I’m going with fluorescent green paint lol!

The thermal mass of a smoker like this definitely takes a lot of the guesswork out of temperature control. Pair it with some nice remote thermometer system for monitoring ambient and meat temp and it practically runs itself.

This was an awesome build!🔥

So talented

You could make a coal basket that slides in and out for the firebox

You should build a fire grate to lift the fire off of the brick and it will be easier to clean it will burn better and put a vent close to the bottom of the door

I enjoyed this build video. It was very interesting to watch.👍🏻

Jeremy you have that tool kit you use around the house still. If so, you should buy a Armytek Wizard C2 Pro Warm to toss in it. It is a great light to use as a work light and it is high CRI so you can also use it as a video light for your YT videos.

What a beauty mate

Should've made one of the handle mounts just a thru hole and the other threaded that way you could simply stick the handle thru the open end and thread it into the other end to affix it

Nice job brother!

Love it 🤘🏼

Great job. Thanks for posting

Well.... a forklift just got added to my list... :)

Bon appétit !!!!

Im building one now out of a 80 gallon tank. But my work is rough and fast, dont have the patience or your fancy tools and work shop.

I was wondering how soon before you made a smoker. Lol Enjoy the good eats.

You should have welded a lice of strapping to the inside of the tank allong the top for the lid to connect with when closed

Where u get those magnets from with those black turning handles

I would love to have the ability to weld and fab all the steel again due to sickness all of my tools sre gone and im living in a rental house now We dont know what gods plans are for us ill just put myself in his hands and see where he leads me

When I saw you go from finishing the cut to grinding with a cut off disc I was going to come down here and mention how unsafe that is. Then you learned the lesson yourself.

@18:38 Is that the RV from Hell from Tango and Cash?

Nicest smoker in the west. $500 in materials but I'd hate to add up the labour cost.

You wasted WAY too much time on the smell when you could of just "BURNED" it out LMAO

That's not a smoker. That's just a grill. If it were a smoker, there would be a plate separating the firebox throat from the cooking grill, closed on the box end, and only open on the opposite end. The chimney would be on the box end, and that will make the smoke and heat cover both sides of the meat.

I'm not going to lie I hate the name "Princess Auto" they could not have picked a worse branding