RS267 said:I'd like to answer some of the questions that have been posed since I was last here yesterday afternoon. Yes, there will be andirons behind the glass to protect the air wash system. No, you will not be able to see the cat through the front glass (the secondaries should provide a pretty good light show though) and access to it will be through a lift up top lid similar to the Fireview. (One of the prototypes had a glass lid so you could see the cat but ultimately we decided soapstone in the lid was the better choice.) The steel firebox shell does several things. There will be fewer seams, which will make it decidedly less prone to leakage. It's a better (and easier) support material for the upper combustion chamber. It will allow both exterior and interior soapstone pieces to be easily replaced (if need be) without having to take the stove apart, and, it will allow us to readily create a second "econo-version" of the stove, down the road, if we choose to do so.
Clearances?