hello purpleheath 
i'd go with stove,stove,stove and as for price, that depends on what kind of stove. What area of the stove market were you thinking of aiming at?
I'm sure you could break it down further but, off the top of my head,with portable woodburners you've got, firstly, the ultra light and small pocket/daypack size stoves.There seems to be a broad market for these but there seems to be a few available that are already quite cheap and work pretty well (although i'm sure there's always room for improvement).These are also pretty easy to make at home and so i guess you'd be competing against that. Here's a link to a good site showing a few...
http://zenstoves.net/Wood.htm
Secondly, there's the larger basecamp ( but still portable ) enclosed woodburning stoves, often with doors and chimneys so that you can use them inside larger tents or tipi's. Here's a few...
http://www.walltentshop.com/CatStoves.html
These have a narrower market and i suppose are more suited to people with transport ( car, canoe, pack mule, dog team etc ) but they are much harder to home build and harder to find in the u.k. (seem more available in u.s.a.) There seems to be alot for a designer to get his teeth into with these: room for improvement in cost, availability, efficiency but they are a good deal more complex from a design and engineering point of view!
With woodburning stoves in general, efficiency seems to be a real area for development and with a large proportion of the world burning wood for cooking and heating anything cleaner burning, more efficient and cheaper to produce would have a huge market. Here's a link to a site with alot of info and link's...
http://journeytoforever.org/at_woodfire.html
I'll stop waffling now but good luck with your project and i, for one, would be really interested in how it goes!
cheers
i'd go with stove,stove,stove and as for price, that depends on what kind of stove. What area of the stove market were you thinking of aiming at?
I'm sure you could break it down further but, off the top of my head,with portable woodburners you've got, firstly, the ultra light and small pocket/daypack size stoves.There seems to be a broad market for these but there seems to be a few available that are already quite cheap and work pretty well (although i'm sure there's always room for improvement).These are also pretty easy to make at home and so i guess you'd be competing against that. Here's a link to a good site showing a few...
http://zenstoves.net/Wood.htm
Secondly, there's the larger basecamp ( but still portable ) enclosed woodburning stoves, often with doors and chimneys so that you can use them inside larger tents or tipi's. Here's a few...
http://www.walltentshop.com/CatStoves.html
These have a narrower market and i suppose are more suited to people with transport ( car, canoe, pack mule, dog team etc ) but they are much harder to home build and harder to find in the u.k. (seem more available in u.s.a.) There seems to be alot for a designer to get his teeth into with these: room for improvement in cost, availability, efficiency but they are a good deal more complex from a design and engineering point of view!
With woodburning stoves in general, efficiency seems to be a real area for development and with a large proportion of the world burning wood for cooking and heating anything cleaner burning, more efficient and cheaper to produce would have a huge market. Here's a link to a site with alot of info and link's...
http://journeytoforever.org/at_woodfire.html
I'll stop waffling now but good luck with your project and i, for one, would be really interested in how it goes!
cheers
