That was just beautiful! I've always loved those display stoves, but to see one working is just icing on the cake, love antiques anyway so if I'm ever lucky enough I want one of those too. It's just wonderful how you restored it and made it work, keep on doing it, it keeps the memories alive from simpler times. My grandmother grew up with one, it's speaks so much of times long past, a great memory to cherish, always. ❤
What a trip down memory lane. My father-in-law (gone for many years) was a Millwright. As a young man he taught himself to work with metals. His basement workshop was full of tools like the ones shown here. How nice to see them in action! And my great grandmother had a wood stove much like this one (without the gold leaf). Thank you so much for connecting me to these folks.
That is one sweet restoration sir, then to top it off, it’s a working model to boot, did yourself proud on this one, congratulations, thanks for the video, enjoyed it.
The little stove was lovely. I kept thinking of my sister's Barbie-doll 'houses' and wondered of the scale... still I'm thinking too much. The work was lovely. Thank you.
Wow that was an amazing job and the video was so interesting!! Could you leave the subtitles on just a bit longer? Everything you did was timely and methodical!!The gold leaf work "put the icing on that cake!!!" Looking forward to more restorations!! 2:18 pm
I'd love to own one of these!!! It looks great and you did a wonderful job restoring it as well!!!! I enjoyed your video so I gave it a Thumbs Up I subscribed to your channel
Let me first saw, awesome job refurbishing this beautiful stove, but as someone who grew up with a majestic wood stove as my family’s sole source of heat and cooking, your “fire” was actually in the oven portion and your gas burner is where the wood should have been. But nonetheless it was nice to see it restored beautifully.
Thanks for watching I really appreciate it. I did take some artistic liberties and start a fire in the oven for fun. I definitely had some viewers not happy about it.
Beautiful job. I hesitate to use the word “restoration” as I believe you made it better than it was when manufactured. Great work mate. We had a similar, although less ornate unit on our farm. It only had the one firebox, where you installed the gas burner. Where you lit the fire was the oven. Please don’t think I’m criticising, I’m just pointing out the difference in ours to yours.
Awesome job! You did put the firewood in the baking owen. (i know it was the only possible way to put firewood in the model because of the gasburner :-) )
Very nice but I wish you could have reused the slotted screws and square nuts instead of modern. The other is - you don't burn wood inside the oven. All the wood is burnt in the firebox where they gas burner is.
Haha - a fire builder you are not! But, WOW! What a piece of art. So this was both a gas burning stove and a wood burning stove? I've never heard of that. But I love the miniatures that salesmen used to cart around to sell their wares. Thank you for bringing this treasure back to life. Did the originals have golden legs? It seems a bit like "gilding the lily" to me.
Yes this one had the gas burner option. I do like taking a little artistic privilege seems to upset some people though…Thank you so much for watching. I have a new restoration coming soon!
Amazing work, although I do hope you used heat resistant paint, however I don't think the gold leaf or the silver paint will hold up with actual heat from the flames. It wasn't constructed to be an actual usable device just a model so customers could see what it looks like. I bet the actual stove weighs several hundred pounds if it's made out of pure cast iron. Great work nonetheless, very pretty finished product.
I like the plated silver better than the gold. Since this was a model, was the full size a combo of a wood and a gas stove; or did you just make this a gas user for fun! Nice rehab work reguardless!
I Like, I Like!! This Earned You A New Subscriber Today🥰 11 - 21 - 2023. The Gold Leaf Was A Great Touch; But I Was Wandering, Will It Melt Off Under The Stress Of The Heat That Is Produced From The Fire That Was Made Inside The Little Stove?
@@sherrylawrencelewis2544Why turn down the volume when they can complain that its not personalised precisely for them? Irony is, it took more time and muscle power to type what they did than it would to turn the volume down 😂
I liked the work, good job. Same comment on others about the music. I turned the volume down, but i do enjoy videos where you can hear the work going on, without the music. But it's your channel. I wonder if this is when they first came out with gas stoves, where they were wood burning stoves converted to gas? My grandmother only had a wood burner when she was on the farm, and was a very good baker with it and it took a lot of knowledge maintaining the heat. It wasn't cast iron, so it was a little more modern, I'd bet it was from the 1930s. She was proud she had baked 3 wedding cakes in that stove! So I did notice the fire was started in the stove, but you already acknowledged in another comment. Were the grates under the gas diffuser put there in case the owner wanted to use wood instead of gas? Is she dual fuel? LOL PS the only nitpick about the restoration. I would have rather seen the round covers on the top made smooth, no lines from the lathe. It would have looked more like they really looked like, they would have been cast iron.
Hey thanks for watching. Yes my dad told me a similar story about his grandmother. Her stove first had wood then coal. This little stove came with a gas option that didn’t work just for show so I drilled it out just to see if I could make it work. Once again thanks!
There's no way I would waste a sheet of gold leaf on that stove. They have gold paint that would have done the same thing without the added expense. Other than that I like the restoration.
Gold is actualy not anyway near that valuable as many people seem to think it is, with modern extractin methods, it requires very, very tiny amonth of pure gold to make a goldleaf but it make a huge differense in the final result compared to bronze or mica paint. :-)
Зря вы так плотно покрыли рисунок золотой патиной. Нужно было просто полусухой кистью пройтись по верхам рисунка и тогда бы он действительно заиграл. А так... низ под золото, крышка под серебро.
Now, you will need some tiny eggs and tiny strips of bacon to cook on this tiny little stove. Or make the tiniest pancakes of all. Hummingbirds lay eggs the size of peas.
