Custom Enameled BK Ashford
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Sorry dude, but that's not what it looks like...............put it back to the originals or at least include them .....heh
Your originals are still posted. I just lightened up the shadows in your pictures and reposted them. The shots are very dark.
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Thanks for the attempt. But what happens when I let more light in is that it distorts the color........The photo may be darker but the color and shade is very accurate.....not perfect but closer.
Actually I realized that a camera doesn't do real life justice...
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Looks good in the light of the day too. Most colors do this. The blue black enamel can look almost black at night and blue grey during the daytime.
Beautiful, but now my wife wants me to do the same......thanks alot
hahaha...........oops .......
Hmmm.....Interesting, I have been looking about what you said and haven't noticed any color change like that
I have to agree with your wife on this one about not liking the enamel choices from Blaze King
I don't know about the quality of the enamel finish on the Ashford but I did see the quality of the the enamel finish used by Harman and quadrafire on some of their stoves including the Isle Royale.
It is called porcelain Mahogany and it was my first choice for the color of my stove. Unfortunately the parent company of quad and Harman which has a factory and porcelainizing plant right here in Washington state , does not offer custom enameling work to the public. Only for their own stoves. That porcelain mahogany finish they do is beautiful . And is a two part process . First coat is a solid light almond color and then they put a semi-transparent dark mahogany color on over it as the second coat........That gives the stove those highlights you see in the corners and edges........My stove is not a two part color process , but is one solid color. And I believe it is put on in more than one step but has a different protocol for the process.
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Actually I think most stoves get 3 coats. The final coat is the clear coat that gives it gloss and depth. The blue black enameled stoves don't have this step making their finish more of a semi-gloss. At least that's what I've been told. Jotul has this finish down pat. Hearthstone did too, at least for a while. Not sure if they still do.
If that is the case then I don't think my stove has that final clear coat......Its glossy but not the glass like mirror finish of the isle royale and yes, the jotul which I forgot to mention. That finish is amazing looking also.
Woody Stover
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That's really pretty. 
Did you have to "break in" the new paint job, like breaking in a new stove, with a couple low fires?
Did you have to "break in" the new paint job, like breaking in a new stove, with a couple low fires?
That's really pretty.
Glad you asked that question because no I didn't have to do any break in fires. And I was curious myself as to why it didn't give off any odor at all. In fact its more neutral smelling when hot than is was the whole time with the black metallic finish all the way up until I sent it in to get it enameled.
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mellow
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Oh please no. A porcelained Princess would look like a cross between a styrofoam to-go box and a 1990 front loading washer. 
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Oh please no. A porcelained Princess would look like a cross between a styrofoam to-go box and a 1990 front loading washer.
Except you can see through the glass of the washer.
The sirocco and Ashford have cleaner glass, the firebox design allows the airwash to work better.
BKVP
Minister of Fire
The Sirocco and Ashford also have vertical doors instead of a slight projecting angle on the Princess. That probably helps the airwash. But for their good looks they have to sacrifice a little efficiency. Nothing is perfect.
Highbeam
Minister of Fire
I don't think there is any sacrifice.
I thought I read that the efficiency was lower on the ashford/scirroco but they had a cleaner emissions rate.
I guess I mean there's no noticeable sacrifice. To the normal consumer anyway.
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