Great Bowls O' Fire Light Up Topeka

Back in March, I had a couple custom orders for gas-burning Great Bowls O' Fire. One was for a theme park in Myrtle Beach and the other was for 3 fire bowls to be set on stone pillars at the Brick Oven Courtyard Grille in Topeka, KS. In both cases, I made the firebowls in the same way I normally would but with a length of gas pipe welded into the bottom of the bowl… The architects for each project contracted separately for the burners and had a plumber do the installation on their end.

While I was working on the most recent custom fire pit for Mary at Garden gate, I called the good people at Automated Fire and Water Effects, Inc. in Las Vegas to ask them some questions about installing the custom burner they had created for the job. Because the bowl was to be installed below ground and had a lid that fit over it, I needed to make sure that the burner would have room to "breath" and that there would still be room for lava rock and glass to be mounded over the burner and under the lid.

They were very helpful and friendly, but I was really surprised when we got to chatting and they asked me if I was the guy who had made the bowls in Topeka… they had been the ones who did the burners for the project. It reminded me that I'd never gotten photos of the final installation and it occurred to me that if it was as cool as it oughta be, a quick google search should pull something up.

Sure enough, the photo at the top of this post came up on a blog post from  the local ABC news channel. I also found the site for the restaurant and talked to the manager there, who quickly shot a few more daytime pics and sent them off to me. Wow. I love the way they look on the pillars. Now I need an excuse to go to Topeka and try the food…

 

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