I've had 2 break in fires to cure the paint with the stove outside of the house with an 8 foot straight stove pipe for draft so I can't share much yet. The stove looks great, appears well made, and seems to burn wood about as expected. The one thing I'll have to work on is making sure wood is burning sufficiently before closing door, it appears my tendency is to close door a little too soon. I was using ash at 30 percent moisture so by next fall I'm hoping the wood ignites a little more quickly.