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I have been building wood burners for a number of years of different styles and designs. All are variations of stoves built from repurposed water heaters or 55 or 30 gallon barrels. Here is a mini-stove I built designed as a patio heater / cooktop. I added doo-dads to give it a little industrial art look from stuff I scrounged here and there. The picture of the cooktop with so food cooking on it was sent to me by the gentleman who bought the stove from me.

So I built this survival stove out of a repurposed electric water heater. It was inspired by wood burners built by Navajo craftsmen I saw at a swap meet in Gallup, New Mexico on a trip I took to Albuquerque.

I saw stoves that had multi-purpose uses. They could heat and cook, some had copper tubes running into them attached to a water tank that could heat water.

This one heats, has a cook top and the top cylinder is a stove that heats up to 500 degrees F. I had a lot of fun building it.