Recent Posts

• Beta-testing and Pre-Production Prices for the IDEAL STEEL Hybrid 03/06/14
• Why are non-catalytic stove manufacturers so upset? 03/05/14
• Our Design Book is Live! 03/04/14
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• BTU Output: How is it Determined? 03/03/14
• New Beta Tester: Meriden, NH 02/21/14
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• Saying Goodbye to Charlie Wolz 02/21/14
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• New Beta Tester: Newbury, VT 02/20/14

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• New Beta Tester in Goffstown, NH 02/11/14
• Bow, NH Beta Tester: Stove Design 2/06/14
• A quick note and pictures from a new Beta Tester 1/24/14

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• Mid-Winter Woodstove Maintenance 1/23/14
• Time lapse video of the Ideal Steel Hybrid 1/08/14
• Early news from Beta Testers 12/13/13
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• Low EPA Emissions Across All Outputs 12/10/13
• Hot Dogs! 12/07/13
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• Under the Hood 12: Ideal Steel Hybrid Burn Times 12/06/13
• Local News Coverage by WCAX TV -VIDEO 11/21/13
• National Geographic: Winning Wood Stove Designs Announced -VIDEO 11/20/13
• Wood Stove Design Challenge: Award Sharing and Collaboration 11/20/13
• The New York Times: Contest Aims for a Cleaner-Burning Wood Stove 11/20/13
• Wood Stove Design Challenge: Woodstock Wins the Grand Prize! 11/19/13
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• Wood Stove Design Challenge: Updates and Coverage 11/19/13
• Woodstove Design Challenge: Sunday 11/17/13

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• Woodstove Design Challenge: Friday results and Saturday pictures 11/16/13
• Wood Stove Design Challenge: Thursday set up 11/15/13
• High Heeled Sneakers: Stove Buddies Assembled (Video) 11/15/13
• Poisson de Manon 11/07/13

• Angler's Delight: Design #1 11/07/13

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• Coming Soon: The Stove Buddies 11/05/13
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• Cordwood Testing: Efficiency over 80%; Emissions under 1 gm/hr 11/05/13
• Woodstock Soapstone on NPR's Marketplace 11/2/13
• Thinking Outside The Box:  It’s Moostastic!  10/31/13
• http://blog.woodstove.com/2014/03/our-design-book-is-live.html

Beta-testing and Pre-Production Prices for the IDEAL STEEL Hybrid

We are offering pre-production prices for the IDEAL STEEL Hybrid for the next several months (see below).  We won’t actually begin shipping IDEAL STEEL Hybrids until June, for one simple reason:  it’s still cold and we haven’t quite finished with Beta testing yet.

Why are non-catalytic stove manufacturers so upset?

As a result of the recently proposed EPA regulations, non-catalytic stove manufacturers (and their surrogates) have stepped up attacks on catalytic stoves in comments to the EPA, and public meetings with EPA.

Our Design Book is Live!

Our Geared 2U Design Book for the Ideal Steel Hybrid is now live on our website. We're still working on getting all of our designs into the book, but we have a good start.

Click here to see our Geared 2U Design Book

BTU Output: How is it Determined?

Several people have recently asked about how BTU output is determined. BTU/hr rating is basically a speed and efficiency rating.  The (1) greater the number of POUNDS OF WOOD CONSUMED PER HOUR, and (2) the higher the OVERALL EFFICIENCY, then the HIGHER THE BTU/hr OUTPUT RATING.

Beta Tester: Meriden, NH

It's nearing the end of February and we are still working on getting few more Ideal Steel Hybrid beta stoves out in the field for the last couple months of burning.

Saying Goodbye to Charlie Wolz

We received the very sad news today that a very active customer of ours, Charlie Wolz, passed away on February 8th.

We first met Charlie in person in May of 2012 when he and his wife, Maribeth, came to see our stoves. This meeting was just the beginning of our relationship with Charlie.  Charlie went on to purchase  a Fireview stove, but due to the age (circa 1840) and size of the home, decided to utilize the 6 month buy back, to exchange the Fireview in for the larger Progress.

Charlie's dog, Benny, with the original Fireview

Throughout the two short years of knowing Charlie, we had many conversations about his stoves and wood burning in general,  and Charlie became a big proponent of our company and our work on the Ideal Steel Stove, and was always at the ready to offer a helpful thought or suggestion. It's customers like Charlie who have helped to to make the Woodstock Soapstone story brighter and richer.

Benny and his Progress Hybrid

After Charlie & Maribeth came up to exchange stoves, we received the following email:

"Thanks for all your time today... We had a blast! Beer was good at the 7 Barrels Brewery... as was the food... Had the Dublin Brown Ale, yummy! Thanks for the cricket.... I’ll bring you some growlers next time I stop in!"

      Charlie & Maribeth Wolz

Charlie, it looks like we'll have to put the growlers on hold for a while.

To read Charlie Wolz's obituary and to write in his guest book, please visit the links below:
Charlie Wolz Obituary 
Charlie Wolz Guest Book