Hey fellas your wish is my command, you asked for it, we secured the La Nordica line, we have them up on our website.
http://woodstoves.net/cookstoves.htm These are fine Italian cookstoves and of a better quality in my humble opinion that the Eastern European Cookstoves that we have resisted carrying for various reasons. The Magma is not a La Nordica and is built in Serbia. There are literally tons of companies in Serbia, Croatia, Czech Republic that are making cook stoves, they all look very nice online, but when you get them installed in your home and begin to look closer you begin to see the differences.
The La Nordica line is comparably priced but there is where the similarities end. Like the difference between a Ferrari and a Yugo. There is a reason that La Nordica is one of the largest cookstove manufactures in Europe. Spend a little time on the La Nordica website
http://www.lanordica-extraflame.com/en/woodburning-cookers_f23 and it becomes very evident the differences in the philosophy of the manufacture.
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, which is why there are so many copies of La Nordica Cookstoves. Had a customer who is also a firefighter, call me the other day wanting to know if we moved? He said he found a website that has a picture of a cabin on their homepage, set in what looks Glacier National Park, just 50 miles to the West of us. He said he has been to W. Virginia many times and never saw any mountains there that looked like that. They even offer a DVD on their site for $20 called “Getting Started With Cookstoves” that should be called, “How To Burn Your House Down In One Easy Lesson”. The video shows a cookstove set on a wood floor without any floor protection and 2- 90 Elbows going into a masonry chimney, which means the smoke, must do a 180 degree turn before it ever goes up the chimney. Both are major National Fire Prevention Association (NFPA 211) code violations. So it is buyer beware with cookstoves and the dealers that sell them.
This is why we have invested the time to post over 300 videos now on You Tube
http://www.youtube.com/user/WoodyChain/featured and making more all the time where we take wood cookstoves and get into the nitty gritty of them. I have been known to stomp on a toe or two along the way. I’m not know to make videos with my wife singing you a beautiful lullaby in the background while I fleece you of your hard earned cash for something that looks like a sows ear up close and burns like a barrel stove. I cut to the chase and give you an engineer’s perspective whom does not always have both paddles in the water. I’ll be the first to admit it. After all who else would run towards the smoke and fire when any sane person is headed the opposite direction. I also live in Montana, which reminds me of a winter joke a supplier sent me, his uncle lived in Montana so he has first-hand experience.
98% of Americans will say “Oh Shoot” as they slide off the road into the ditch………2% live in Montana, in contrast they would say, “Hold on to my beer and watch this!”
In light of that I leave you with this, we are grateful to be able to do what we do, we have grown over the years because of Hearth.com and are happy to support this site where folks can find honest info on a verity of Hearth products. Thanksgiving will soon be upon us, we wanted to do something special for those who love cookstoves, so we re-launched our
http://cookstoves.net/ site which is totally devoted to wood cookstoves and all they stand for. We will continue to post articles, videos and allow folks to sell their used cookstoves there for free. Folks can share recipes and pictures of their cookstoves there. I paid to have the site built and will support it financially as my way to show my, "Many Thanks" and giving back to this community of like-minded folks that all have a common bond, heating and cooking with wood. Happy Thanksgiving to all! and enjoy those times with family and friends as you feast on your meal prepared on your cookstove.
We will be giving away free gifts like a Moisture Meter, Log Rack, Fireplace Tool, Leather Fireplace Gloves, and a Firewood Hauling Bag to those who submit the best pictures of their wood cookstove installation and the Thanksgiving Meal they prepared on it. We go live Thanksgiving Day but the site is up now, we are still tuning it and adding more info. Come join us and contribute what you have to share about your wood cookstove and how it has contributed to your life. Enjoy from Woody and Company.
I wish they'd post specs in British units though.
