So a few years ago I bought my wife a Kifaru 8 man with a medium stove. It was expensive!

But they're so friggin awesome! We have had a real tipi for years, but this lightweight (7.5 lbs,) version and the medium stove were just about perfect for her and a couple horseback riding buddies on their weekend rides.

But I had tent envy.

I wanted a smaller one for just one or two people. But this time out I wanted to save a few bucks and make one.
With some research I found that a Go-Lite SL4, (now discontinued) would make a perfect candidate for a simple structure. It's a 9'6" square pyramid floorless. About 5' tall in the center. Lots of space and packs very small and only 3.5 lbs.

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With some more digging around I found some stove jack material from TiGoat. They were real nice and will sell you as much or as little as you want.
So, I got the material, found a deal on an SL4 and broke out the sewing machine...
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Next thing you know, I've sewn in a new stove jack
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Of course at that point there was nothing to do but try it out so I broke out the new Kifaru small stove. It's tiny! (malt beverage included for scale and minutes later consumed for pleasure.)
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A quick and ugly 4 corner and post pitch and the stove is in place.
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Burns like a charm and all the fire stays in the stove ! laugh
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This was a fun and easy project to do. Big props to Evan Hill of HillPeopleGear.com for helping me with some of the details. Can't wait to really try her out.

Just wanted to post up and thank this forum for the inspiration. Lot's of good ideas in here.

Thanks,
Randy