I'm thinking about getting a wood burning stove to play around with. What area my options for inexpensive stoves? Are there any good MYOG designs out there?

Hey Andy,
I make several different stainless single walled stoves that nest inside many popular backpacking pots. I have owned and made many double walled stoves but I prefer single for the lightness and the capability for larger fire boxes.
My woodstoves all will easily boil their prospective pots with a single load of wood when lit from the top. Both Esbit and alcohol work very well with this type of stove body.
Using stainless mugs can be a MYOG project for you but step bits are pretty expensive and dont last long.

A double walled paint can woodstove is a nice MYOG project that doesnt require nearly as much work and they work great. typically the finished product will be 4 to 5 oz
http://www.instructables.com/id/Woodgas-Can-Stove/

the stove shown below is one of my stoves sized to nest in the SP600. weight as shown is 2.85 oz. I also make them to fit in the MSR TITAN KETTLE, the TOAKS 550ml pot form Litetrail, and several others in different sizes and shapes.

Stainless is extremely hard to work with but will last a lifetime. I have many stoves that have had several hundred fires in them with no corrosion, rust, etc.

Edited by cadyak on 02/13/2013 11:33:27 MST.

You can always get an esbit stove, or build one, and throw little twigs in the flame area to add extra heat if you get low on esbit.

Andy, what kind of pot do you want to use? I make a single-wall wood stove from titanium or stainless steel to fit Foster's beer can pots or similar.

David, that looks cool and superlight. Is that bottom picture showing the wood burning setup? Got any videos of how it behaves loaded with wood and a pot on top?
the firebox looks plenty big.

Andy,

I was in the same boat in that I wanted to try a wood burner without dropping a lot of money. I found the Antig Outdoors Woodlore Stove to be the answer. It's $24.99 and fits perfectly (in its stuff sack) inside my 1L Evernew Ti Pasta Pot.

For a cheap wood stove to try I don't think it can be beat.

Brent,

Yes, the bottom photo shows the wood burning set up.

Weight for Ti is 22.1 g cone + 8 g base sheet + 8.2 g stakes = 38.3 g (1.37 oz)

Weight for SS is 24.6 g + 8.3 g base sheet + 9.7 g stakes = 42.6 g (1.52 oz)

No videos, but here are a couple of photos of it in action.

David

this was super simple to make. only required a dremel tool and a soup can...


it can even cook spam!


i'd suggest diy just to be sure you want to go through the trouble of building a little fire in the evening and in the am if you want coffee.

Four Dog Stove Bushcooker LT 1



Multi use fuel with alcohol, esbit tabs and wood. This titanium stove comes in at 2.2oz.

Jay,

I've head of the FourDog before, but I've not seen one in person. It's a double wall stove, yes?

And what is that object off to the left? Is it a detachable bottom? And you can put alcohol or ESBIT in it?


HJ
Adventures In Stoving

Also check this thread, the $3 IKEA woodstove:
http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin/backpackinglight/forums/thread_display.html?forum_thread_id=27176&disable_pagination=1

I own a Trail Designs Sidewinder ti stove with the Inferno woodburning inner kit.

One could not do any better than to copy that design with some hardware screening and sheet ti from Titanium Goat.

The Caldera Cones get their great efficiency from the tight fit of pot-to-stove.
I don't know of any other stoves that are as fuel efficient.

Yes, the Bush Buddy may BURN fuel a bit more efficiently but they lose much of that heat to the atmosphere due to the gap between pot and stove. Also the BB stoves must be constantly fed fuel due to their small opening for wood. Not so withthe Tri Ti and Sidewinder stoves.