Hi,
This little project started off after reading this by Lieutenant M Cleeve,
This was a bit of a contrast to trench life, where we often had to cook our own meals and i used a little bivvy tin that i had. It was a tiny wee saucepan with a lid and inside the saucepan was a methylated spirits lamp. And what i found to be absolutely marvellous at an observation post was a tin of bully beef, which we had quite often, and i'd fry it on this little stove.
This got my mind going so i googled up WW1 trench stove and some pic's came up, this was it i had to make one up.
I got some measurements for the cup in the pic's and after chatting with woof he measured his Tatonka cup for me, this is the one i went with. The only prob with this cup is that it does not come with a lid so i had to make one up from ally to fit the cup i used a dee ring on top .
Next was to find a stand for the cup to sit on top with a burner inside , this is made from a sink tidy which i added a copper ring around the top for the cup to sit on.
For the burner i used a Tatonka one .
Well all that was left was for some leather work for it to fit in. All the stitching is do with linen thread to keep with the original leather work.
Thank you for looking
All comments welcome
Cheers
Topknot
This little project started off after reading this by Lieutenant M Cleeve,
This was a bit of a contrast to trench life, where we often had to cook our own meals and i used a little bivvy tin that i had. It was a tiny wee saucepan with a lid and inside the saucepan was a methylated spirits lamp. And what i found to be absolutely marvellous at an observation post was a tin of bully beef, which we had quite often, and i'd fry it on this little stove.
This got my mind going so i googled up WW1 trench stove and some pic's came up, this was it i had to make one up.
I got some measurements for the cup in the pic's and after chatting with woof he measured his Tatonka cup for me, this is the one i went with. The only prob with this cup is that it does not come with a lid so i had to make one up from ally to fit the cup i used a dee ring on top .
Next was to find a stand for the cup to sit on top with a burner inside , this is made from a sink tidy which i added a copper ring around the top for the cup to sit on.
For the burner i used a Tatonka one .
Well all that was left was for some leather work for it to fit in. All the stitching is do with linen thread to keep with the original leather work.
Thank you for looking
All comments welcome
Cheers
Topknot