first project stove

[nat110732]

Thanks mate, that would be brilliant! If only I could just email you some titanium in return!
I'm gonna get the ol' drawing board out and tweak my original design a little.
Again, thanks its a really nice offer

Nat

[Raven]

not a problem mate,

paul

[Humakt]

That looks very much a Nimblewill Stove. Dead easy to make and considerably cheaper than a Honey Stove.

[bigzee]

That looks very much a Nimblewill Stove. Dead easy to make and considerably cheaper than a Honey Stove.

Dead easy to make if you know how. Dead easy to ruin if you don't.

[Humakt]

Dead easy to make if you know how. Dead easy to ruin if you don't.

Erm...not really. It's just a matter of cutting straight lines. You print out the templates, copy them to the material you're going to use and then cut them out. I'm not sure that cutting around templates is 'dead easy' to go wrong, to be honest. With all the other practical tasks a bushcrafter likes to take on I'm sure cutting some straight lines shouldn't prove that difficult. It's not as though it requires any special skills.

Here's the one I made:



And I made that with just a Dremel, and the last time I'd done any metal work was at secondary school (which was quite a few years ago now). The idea that these things are difficult to make is not true. Anyone can do it. All in it cost me about £5 (for the cutting discs - a local sheet metal fabricators gave me the stainless offcuts free!). And by making things for yourself you learn new skills, feel empowered and save money. If you're just going to shrug your shoulders and say "ur, I can't do that" then you never will. Especially when it comes to something as simple as cutting straight lines in a piece of metal!

[bigzee]

Erm...not really. It's just a matter of cutting straight lines. You print out the templates, copy them to the material you're going to use and then cut them out. I'm not sure that cutting around templates is 'dead easy' to go wrong, to be honest. With all the other practical tasks a bushcrafter likes to take on I'm sure cutting some straight lines shouldn't prove that difficult. It's not as though it requires any special skills.

Here's the one I made:



And I made that with just a Dremel, and the last time I'd done any metal work was at secondary school (which was quite a few years ago now). The idea that these things are difficult to make is not true. Anyone can do it. All in it cost me about £5 (for the cutting discs - a local sheet metal fabricators gave me the stainless offcuts free!). And by making things for yourself you learn new skills, feel empowered and save money. If you're just going to shrug your shoulders and say "ur, I can't do that" then you never will. Especially when it comes to something as simple as cutting straight lines in a piece of metal!

That's a fair point - well made. I agree that most of us guys on the forum can "turn our hands" to most practical tasks (necessity is the mother of invention), and that is why we're here sharing technical info. I made the remark because I have come across a few folk over the years who couldn't even cut a sandwich straight, never mind thin metal (and some of them were male - shock horror!). A lovely collapsable stove like that needs to have slots at right angles to sit straight when assembled.

Nice work by the way - even got a proper lookin' pouch!