Soapstone Stove for GoodFortune

[T.A.R.]

I recently built and installed a Soapstone stove on Good Fortune. With luck I'll share pics.

[T.A.R.]

Sorry let me try again, I thought I knew how?

[T.A.R.]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2239/2201659304_c228b6c617_m.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2123/2201657168_00bd7f5428_m.jpg?SSImageQuality=Full

[T.A.R.]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2086/2201656618_e28e978e1b_m.jpg?SSImageQuality=Full

[P.L.Lenihan]

Your're almost there.......if only they would be a) larger
b) oriented

:D:D:D From what can be made out, it looks nice!

Peter

[T.A.R.]

Sorry, The files were too big for direct upload? An oops on the orientation.

[djn]

How did you connect the sides, bottom, and top and how is it sealed? Cheers.......looks great.

[T.A.R.]

Thanks,It is pinned with bronze and sealed with furnace cement. I will lash or band the top and bottom to eye bolts. I figure it to weigh around 250#s.

[StevenBauer]

Very nice. I really like soapstone. I used it for my countertops and sink here in the house. I might have enough for my tiny little galley space on the boat.
Did you design the stove yourself or find a plan someplace?

Steven

[Thorne]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2086/2201656618_e28e978e1b_m.jpg

Nice !

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[T.A.R.]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/11470624@N07/2200862853/http://www.flickr.com/photos/11470624@N07/2200862853/Thanks Thorne I'll try again,http://www.flickr.com/photos/11470624@N07/2200862853/http://www.flickr.com/photos/11470624@N07/2200862853/

[T.A.R.]

For some reason I'm having difficulties, when pasted in a browsers window the image appears, when I put the URL in the window and click Ok I get a square with a red mark in it.
Steve it is inspired by a Jotel stove that a friend of mine has used for years. I made it to fit the space, put in a baffle and mostly tried to do what looks right. The doors came from another stove.

[elf]

Here's a slight improvement:

http://www.landsedgephoto.com/TARsstove1.jpg

and:

http://www.landsedgephoto.com/TARsstove2.jpg

and the last one:

http://www.landsedgephoto.com/TARsstove3.jpg

[elf]

What a handsome stove!

[Tylerdurden]

Thanks, my neck was starting to hurt. Did you build from stock plans?

[T.A.R.]

Thanks ELF!
I drew up plans, but it was inspired by a Jotel stove.

[elf]

Thanks ELF!
I'll take a sail on that boat next summer in exchange!

[T.A.R.]

I'd be glad to have you aboard.

[elf]

Oh, goody! Just let me know when!

[T.A.R.]

Will do. While we're waiting for summer we are at Wickford Shipyard I'm aboard Sunday and Monday stop by if you're in the nieghborhood.

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

That's totally cool..:D

[T.A.R.]

Just wanted to give you an update. The stove is working well I get it going with newspaper and lump charcoal then put the coal to her. I could easily drive myself out of the boat with it. She dials down nicely and once going requires little tending for the days work. So far, due to time, I haven't been able to stay on the boat long enough to use it up.

[redbopeep]

Thanks! for posting this. I've daydreamed of building my own soapstone saloon stove but hadn't heard of anyone else doing it. I'm also daydreaming of building a galley stove, but that's a different thing.

I've got a "thing" for stoves and used to threaten to build my own stove (for the house) to get the look and function that I wanted.

Now my hubby is beginning to take me seriously! At least about a saloon stove for the boat :)

Thanks!

[T.A.R.]

If I can be of help let me know. I am going to bind the stove with bronze anglestock and flat stock. From the bronze it will be made fast to the Bulkheads with eyebolts. Also, build the fire slowly too much heat too quick will crack it.

[redbopeep]

I was wondering if you were going to do that with bronze. Are your doors cast iron and painted/enameled? Assume so and wondered how you decided on that.

[T.A.R.]

The doors are cast and enameled. They are not my making, they were scavenged from a Jotel stove. The doors fell into my lap so to speak and rushed the project along. Untill that point I was debating soapstone doors or having them cast. The firebox door is double walled the others are single wall.

[StevenBauer]

I have a few soapstone tiles left over from my kitchen countertop project. They are 12" x 12" x 1/2". I wonder if I could fabricate a "little cod" type stove out of them. Might be a good winter project.


Steven

Oops, I meant a 'Sardine'

[redbopeep]

The doors are cast and enameled. They are not my making, they were scavenged from a Jotel stove. The doors fell into my lap so to speak and rushed the project along. Untill that point I was debating soapstone doors or having them cast. The firebox door is double walled the others are single wall.

Hi,

Did you ever take a pic of the finished stove in place?

I'm just (lightly) beginning the search for firebox and doors...not a high priority to do this stove, but I'm still "gathering" stuff anyway.

:)

[redbopeep]

Hey guys, Did anyone else make a soapstone stove? I have a friend who is thinking about making one and wonders how big this one was, how it turned out and all.

Thanks!

[JimConlin]

Paul Luke in East Boothbay (http://www.peluke.com/Fireplaces/fireplaces.html) makes soapstone cabin heaters.
http://www.peluke.com/Fireplaces/customchrome.jpg
I'll bet they'd customize.