Hello guys, I hope you all are enjoying the winter cause I sure am not. I wanted to show off a box I am working on and maybe get some input.I'm still trying to decide how to attach the trivet,burner,legs etc to the corners and lid.This stove was bought with a cardboard box that was in pieces,but with all the parts including the paper stuff. I had to move my workshop into the dinning room last week because of super cold temps. The wife is away for 2 weeks. I'm thinking of attaching the burner and etoh bottle with some cut up old leather belt.The legs maybe a dadoedsection of wood and the trivet with a few turnbuckles like the kind that were used in old tool chests to attach handsaws.This wood is 1/2 inch aromatic red cedar from a 1930s or 40s hope chest that I found along the road last week on trash night. Thanks for looking.
Hi Doug, You have made a beautiful box. Turnbuckles are the way to go for the trivet attachmant IMO. For the stove legs have a look at this early Optimus 1 arrangement: https://classiccampstoves.com/threads/15377 Best Regards, Kerophile.
Hi Doug Very nice. I think your plans sound good. Please show us a photo of the finished project when you get to it. Cheers, Gary
Morning, Doug, Very nice woodwork, Sir! That cedar will smell good, and look good, for a very long time! It's cool that you found the old cedar chest alongside the road, on trash day, and then rescued and made good use of it!! Well done! Just to show another version of what you made, here's a SVEA #106 that I found, along with a boat load of other stoves, up in Alaska, whilst working up there with Sweet Bride years ago. The wood is not near as nice as yours, but it's well made, and works well, too. The maker, probably an old Fart, like so many of us here at CCS, did a rough countersunk area for the legs, burner, and tools. It all fits, which is good, and I am sure that this wooden box served him well over the years. Thanks, again, for sharing your lovely cedar box, Doug. You did a fine job, and it should serve you well, and with class! Take care, and God Bless! Every Good Wish, Doc
very nice Doug i have been thinking about making a few boxes for my two pintas but waiting to find some scrap hard wood i am also thinking of ways of attatching all the parts of the stove in the box
George I have looked at the box and stove in your link more times than I care to admit.Yes Im using that same leg holder but made with wood.Great minds think alike Gary I will post more pics but I am thinking of making a lathe turned handle for it and I can't move the Powermatic 45 to the dining room by myself.It's 20 degrees out there .SO it may be a while till Im finished. Doc that box you posted is like the ones my father makes for his electric tools.Hes 87 and still making them.I used one of his as a model for this box ,in fact I took the hardware off one to use here.Thanks for posting those pics.Maybe I should go to alaska for stoves instead of ebay? Mr Optimus If your thinking of making boxes 1/2 inch plywood is great but real wood looks better. TIP: The drawers in old dressers (30s 40s and maybe 50s) used 1/2" oak.or sycamore(I think they call that plane or buttonwood in the UK).When I see any old dresser in the trash I grab a few drawers and toss them in the trunk.Later I bang out the sides and back to use for boxes.The bottoms were made with 1/4 " ply and usefull for the dadoed box bottoms and lids. Duane thanks.I like working with wood and so making a special box for something as cool as a old brass stove seems like the right thing to do.A labor of love
BTW the box (pieces of cardboard) that came with this stove had this: I was wondering if that is the year it was made on the lower left
Doug, Patience, patience' the inspiration will come! I could show you pictures of my single brassie and the case it is in but it is in a repurposed US Army night vision goggle case 100 points for utility, zero for style!
Hi Doug, I reckon that the Stove box, and therefore probably the stove dates from pre-1965 as it is marked up as Max Sievert. Best Regards, Kerophile.
Hi Doug, Here's a suggestion for the burner. Store it the other way up by taking a square block of wood (1.24"-1.5" or whatever fits nicely), drilling out to the widest diameter of the riser tube and with a height such that the spirit cup just rests nicely on the top. If you made the square big enough you could make it dual purpose by taking a section out of one corner such that it fits snugly against the stove to stop it moving around in the box. If you utilised a smaller size priming fuel container you could perhaps utilise the same technique of the other side of the stove box as well thereby creating a nice snug fit for the stove tank. But I guess this is just an adaption of what Kerophile was also getting at in his reference to the early Optimus outfit. Looking good already though Cheers, Graham.
Beautiful work on the case! Presentation quality, for sure! Be sure to share the final product... Ummm, how do you get your wife to let you work on the dining room table?!
The wife gets home thursday from a 2 week trip so I had to turn the workshop back into a dinning room. Here is the finished stove box:
Very nice box. I'm going to have to steal your idea of using the belt to hold the bits securely. Paul
whoa! nice woodworking! that's an heirloom for sure! i'm going to remember your tip about finding nice wood!
