The first thing to determine before refinishing your stove is "What are you going to do with it?" If your stove is for display only, then a good coat of Heat Resistant paint is fine, and stay away from...
Often Antique Stoves Require Re-Nickeling of the Trim Pieces, and this is often Mentioned in the Auction of the Stove. Now, The Nickel Process is Actually just Part of a Chroming Process. The part is first...
Quite often I'm asked what the numbers in the rear corner of an Antique Cook Stove/Range actually mean or stand for. Quite simply, in most cases, they pertain to the length of the Firebox (thus usable wood...
Greetings~ With Considerable Experience in The Restoration, Repair, and Sales of Antique Wood and Coal Burning Stoves, I want to take a Minute and offer up some of my Experience for you to possibly learn from....
Antique Wood and Coal Stoves, including Cylinder, Parlor, Four O'Clock and other Stoves often had a False Top, or Finial. I refer to it as a False Top as it had little Function except as a Decoration. It more...
More often than not, when browsing the catagories for Antique wood and coal stoves on eBay, you will see "Genuine Caboose Stove" in the description, usually pertaining to a little Pot Belly Cast Iron Stove,...
A short Guide to touch base on some important points on this Subject. Ever hear the phrase "I've Been Cooking All Day, Slaving Over A Hot Stove"? In the warm months, actually using an Antique Wood Cook Stove...
If ever there was a Vague Catagory, this is it. Seems like everyone is selling Hong Kong Miniature Cook Stoves as Salesman's Samples. Some of the more prevalent are the Crescent, Queen, Royal, King brands,...
All the girls had ugly gym uniforms? It took five minutes for the TV warm up? Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school? Nobody owned a purebred dog? When a quarter was a decent...
Since I started selling on Ebay in 2000, I've had an arrangement with a friend of mine that receives probably 50 boxes of Motorcycle Parts a week at his Retail Store. For years he was throwing away the Foam...