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Plans for Smokers - Plans for building your own custom smoker

Plans for building your own custom smoker from brick and mortar to steel construction. Build the barbecue you need with these plans and construction information.

Backyard Barbecue Pit

Follow in Dave Lineback's footsteps to build your own brick backyard smoker.

Big Baby Double-Barreled Cooker

More information from Garry, this time on the double barrel steel drum smoker.

Build Your Own Brick BBQ Pit

Information from Garry on building your own brick smoker.

Build Your Own Texas Grill

Detailed plans and instructions for building a single barrel metal smoker/grill. Requires welding skills but is pretty basic.

Building a DOWELL Offset Horizontal Smoker

Detailed plans for building a metal horizontal smoker with an off-set firebox. You'll need to know how to weld for this one.

Free Plans for Building a Steel Smoker

Garell York offers these plans for building steel smoker out of old large propane tanks. If you are up to the welding, this is a good looking smoker.

Homemade Smokers and Smokehouses

Some nice pictures and a bit of information from the BBQ Survival Guide.

How to Build a Brick Barbecue

Detailed plans and information on building a basic charcoal or hardwood backyard grill.

Popular Mechanics - Stone Barbecue

This article, with plenty of pictures details building a stone enclosure for a drop in grill unit. Includes information on running gas lines and other necessities of the project.

Trash Can Smoker

Detailed plans and information on building a smoker out of a metal trash can. It actually looks pretty good.

Wide World of Pits

A collection of pictures of custom barbecue pits. Some of these are very creative solutions to the low and slow cooker.

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