Woodstock Keystone -advice,comments,suggestions

[Backwoods Savage]

Ok going with the FV, wife made the decision based on the link to the pictures. Now I can blame you for any issue!! Ha ha.

Like I said, want this to be the last stove - can't wait for the fall!!

Congratulations. Please keep us posted as you go along. Make sure you have a good plan for getting it into the house because it is heavy. We left the stove right in the crate until we got to the hearth, then tore the crate apart. Worked really nice. This is what we put the crate on to move the stove.

 

[phil san]

Congratulations. Please keep us posted as you go along. Make sure you have a good plan for getting it into the house because it is heavy. We left the stove right in the crate until we got to the hearth, then tore the crate apart. Worked really nice. This is what we put the crate on to move the stove.

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Plan on loading in van on a small platform truck. Drive to and back up to house steps with a ramp. Roll through the house right to the hearth in the crate and then move it on. I'll send a pic of the platform and then my idea of moving the beast onto the hearth.

 

[Woody Stover]

Ok going with the FV....Like I said, want this to be the last stove

It may well be your last stove; You will absolutely love it!
My BIL is buying the Fv from me, moving from a smoke-bomber to a clean-burning classic stove. I can heat this place with the Ks; He's got more sq.ft. at his place. I like the metallic blue, which I've got on both of my Woodies. It's not blue like in the picture on the web site....more of a medium gray with a faint blue tinge to it.

 

[begreen]

If you want this to be your last stove don't hang around here. LOL

 

[Todd]

If you want this to be your last stove don't hang around here. LOL

True dat!

 

[phil san]

It may well be your last stove; You will absolutely love it!
My BIL is buying the Fv from me, moving from a smoke-bomber to a clean-burning classic stove. I can heat this place with the Ks; He's got more sq.ft. at his place. I like the metallic blue, which I've got on both of my Woodies. It's not blue like in the picture on the web site....more of a medium gray with a faint blue tinge to it.

I was going with the charcoal since the black seems too contrasting to the light stone IMHO. The blue if as you described seems nice, trouble is when I look at their web site it varies from a powder bright blue to a grey blue.
On 1st look, would some one say your FV is blue or not sure?

Maybe I should get two!

 

[Todd]

I think you need to take the trip up to Woodstock and check them out.

 

[begreen]

The color of the paint is hard to repro exactly on a computer screen. Also, it will change depending on the lighting, even in your own home. A field trip sounds like fun! That way you can pick the stones too.

 

[Woody Stover]

I was going with the charcoal since the black seems too contrasting to the light stone IMHO. The blue if as you described seems nice, trouble is when I look at their web site it varies from a powder bright blue to a grey blue.
On 1st look, would some one say your FV is blue or not sure?

The color of the paint is hard to repro exactly on a computer screen. Also, it will change depending on the lighting, even in your own home. A field trip sounds like fun! That way you can pick the stones too.

Yep, hard to get true color on a screen. I would try to get some pics of mine but there's not much sunlight in here with the small windows and trees shading the house, and a camera flash would make bring out the blue more. It would be hard to tell even at the factory unless they have some stoves that are burned in. The paint color mellows and the stone darkens after several firings. But no, no one would describe my stoves as "blue." My SIL has the Fv in black and yes, it has quite a bit of contrast even though her stone is really dark. I've never seen a charcoal but I'd think it and the blue are not too far apart in contrast or even color for that matter....only guessing here, though.

Maybe I should get two!

Well, I took a bit of a bath selling the Fv to my BIL but I'm glad I got the chance to experience burning both stoves. It's nice that they live right down the block; I'll still get to play with "my" Fv!

 

[phil san]

The color of the paint is hard to repro exactly on a computer screen. Also, it will change depending on the lighting, even in your own home. A field trip sounds like fun! That way you can pick the stones too.

I would love to visit Woodstock and just browse all day.
I live south of Boston so the trip is just 3 hours. Trouble is going through, around, underneath or anyway north past Boston is pure hell. Add another hour to hour and a half at least.

 

[Oldhippie]

Phil, quite the difference. When I first saw the Fireview I laughed. Was amazed that they thought I could heat our home with that little stove. They got the last laugh, sort of. What we got was a stove that heated our home like we wanted and used only 50% or less of the amount of wood we had been burning. In addition, now we no longer had to close off part of the home in order to stay warm. We keep our home 80 degrees or higher all winter long. That may sound hot as it does to most but we did find there definitely is a difference and there is a "soft heat" from these stoves.

Not sure if you have the dimentions but here are some.

Total height: 28"
Height to center of flue (rear exit): 22 3/4"
Total width: 26"
Total depth: 18"

With our stove, we exit straight through the wall (about 1/2" rise per foot of horizontal pipe) then up along side of the house. No chase. No problem. We do have the rear heat shield.

The beast is heavy for sure but that is a definite plus for giving off the heat for a long period. And yes, we do some cooking on this stove too. We have with every stove we've ever owned. The picture below is one I took after building a wood rack to store wood on the porch (It has since been stained). Because the stove is so low, we raised the hearth 16". Both my wife and I have bad backs so we did not want to stoop to put wood in. The 16" proved to be ideal as we have a chair right by the stove. When wood is needed, we simply open that sliding glass door, grab a few sticks and come back in. Sit on chair and load the stove. It works for us.

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That's a pretty stove in that color combo Dennis.

 

[Oldhippie]

Here's a video of lighting a Keystone from Woodstock, it might give you a better idea of the size.

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That keystone is a nice stove too. No wrong answer on that score.. just a matter of taste in the looks, and little size difference.

 

[Oldhippie]

Ok going with the FV, wife made the decision based on the link to the pictures. Now I can blame you for any issue!! Ha ha.

Like I said, want this to be the last stove - can't wait for the fall!!

What color?!

 

[ddddddden]

I would love to visit Woodstock and just browse all day.
I live south of Boston so the trip is just 3 hours. Trouble is going through, around, underneath or anyway north past Boston is pure hell. Add another hour to hour and a half at least.

They are open Saturdays, if that would help with traffic.
Take a truck and save on shipping + get a $50 discount for factory pick-up. Woohoo!