Where can I find a good set of wood stove plans?
We strongly recommend that you don’t attempt to build your own stove. Here’s why. You can’t burn wood cleanly and efficiently without a good combustion system, and you can’t design and build a one-off combustion system that is any good. One of the reasons why the price of good wood stoves start at about $1000 is because it took a lot of practice, trial and error and bucket loads of money to get them to work properly and to pass both safety and emissions test standards. Thirty years ago wood burning technology was crude, sort of like folk-technology and anyone with a welder could call himself a manufacturer. It is not like that any more and it is a good thing. A lot of folks got burned, both literally and financially, buying stoves built by people who didn’t know what they were doing. There are no plans available for a good wood stove. If you were to find stove plans they would undoubtedly show you how to make a lousy one because no one in their right mind would suggest that a wood stov
