johnhall wrote:Actually, you have to be quite careful using this kind of scrap in the fire. I used to take it home to burn . . . until I melted the andirons in the fireplace and the glass front shattered, sending hot shards that melted into the carpet.
I have a gas log set now.
The good thing about it is that after a whole evening of burning Maple, you only have about a cup of ash.
True, luckily no andirons here, just a fire brick lined, quartz glass front wood stove that runs in the 90+% efficiency range. Made to handle pretty much any sort of wood. We occasionally get black locust, which burns amazingly hot (more BTU/cord than maple), but the smoke smell like you're burning something you cleaned out of the cat's litter box...

I have NO idea what to do with those skinny stringed things... I'm just a bass player...