What Is It?

BurnT-BOX: The indoor fireplace for the outdoor man. Or for anyone who enjoys the warmth and beauty that a fireplace provides but doesn’t have one.

High Level Detail

Constructed using a distinctly blue toolbox from stamped and enameled steel

Personalization - Engrave up to 6 characters on the box to make it the perfect gift for a loved one or yourself. Write a name. Write a date. You choose

The interior fireplace is hand poured concrete and features uniform wall thickness, clean styling, and a fill line to mark the stopping point for a perfect pour

The center channel is designed to hold enough fuel for up to a 2-hour fire with the concrete absorbing the excess heat and radiating it long after the flame has extinguished

Safe to use indoors and on most surfaces. However, always practice proper caution while burning your BurnT-BOX. After all, fire in any form can be dangerous if not handled with care

The fuel is made from alcohol and when it's burned it creates heat, CO2, and a little bit of water vapor

NO vent needed :)

Personalize It

Write the name of that special someone or maybe add the date you got together. You have up to 6 characters to make it special

Fundraising Support Levels

The Starter Kit

Included in your shipment: 1 BurnT-Box w/ rock lining, 1L bottle of fuel

The Refill Kit

3 x 1L bottles of fuel. Enough for approximately 15 fires.

The Idea

The concept of BurnT-BOX was hatched a year ago when searching for a unique gift for a friend. This guy loves motorcycles and the outdoors but also interior design and antiques. While walking through the aisle of a hardware store I noticed the toolboxes and remembered an old toolbox that my dad had in the garage. It was his fathers toolbox and it was metal, heavy, practical and yet at the same time it was beautiful. Right then it was decided. My friend was getting a toolbox... a toolbox with fire.

Now that the idea was in place, a few details still needed to be hammered out. In order for this gift to be amazing the toolbox needed to be solid, made out of metal, and beautiful. After days of searching, I purchased an old craftsman style toolbox and when it arrived it was retrofit with a metal channel in the middle of the box and filled with an ethanol based fuel.

Now the gift was complete but my interest in the design had just begun

Evolution Of A Design

The first prototype was the old toolbox mentioned above. However, in order to turn this into a new and scalable product, the design had to be rebuilt from the ground up. Over the past year dozens of designs were created. Each time a new prototype was made something else was discovered.

The following are some of the major design changes along the way:

Schedule

December 2016 - Wrap up fundraising on Kickstarter

December 2016 - Have prototypes created by several manufacturers

December 2016 - Place the order for the fuel bottles to be made

January 2017 - Set up local manufacturing of the concrete insert and place the order for the toolboxes and inserts to be made

February 2017 - Assemble the BurnT-BOXes and begin personalizing the orders

March 2017 - Begin shipping the first orders

Concrete requires weeks to fully cure resulting in a longer manufacturing time. If we attempted to ship these out sooner they would most likely break in transit.

Final Thoughts

Designing is hard. It takes a lot of time, maybe too much time. It's frustrating and if you're doing it right you will become obsessed with it. It took me a while to launch this project because I was constantly criticizing my work and I never felt like it was perfect. Heck, I'm sure this creation isn't perfect, but it's really good I'm incredibly excited to share it with you or whomever you're going to gift it to. I hope you love it as much as I do and more than anything I hope this inspires you to make something of your own

Cheers,

Mike