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Great for organizing fatwood or any other product you choose to refill with. No assembly required and adds to the ambience by keeping fireplace neat
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I have a friend that I buy Fatwood for each Christmas as a gift so that he can have fires all Winter Season Long. I share them with him when he is in town and I am available. We have been good friends for over 30 years. I used to watch him struggle to start a fire with his leftover Newspaper or with the Pine Cones I picked up on his property while I was out walking the dog. It seemed like when we wanted a fire, it was quite the struggle to get one started.Then one year I came across Fatwood in an Orvis Catalogue and we tried some of that and it was a wonderful find, but then there was the problem of how to store it. B. kept his firewood in a specially built wood holder that was built into his home during its original construction and that worked like a charm, but Fatwood was not "the thing" when the house was constructed back in 1981, so the builder did not have the foresight to build in a special compartment for FatWood...who had even heard of FatWood then? Now, it would be quite reasonable to ask for a compartment next to the fire place which would hold the FatWood, but not WAY BACK IN THE DARK AGES!
Aparently, many a FatWood user has been faced with this difficulty as I see that new and different FatWood Holders or Caddys appear on a yearly basis now. Some are nice and some so so. I thought such a caddy would make a good Christmas present for my friend, and in 2011, I found this one available through Amazon and put in an order.
It is constructed of nice heavy black metal and holds about 5 pounds of FatWood, right there on the hearth, in a nice, tidy compartment. It is heavy enough to hold the wood without the caddy's falling over and dumping pieces of FatWood all over the hearth and onto the floor. It is a flat black color, not a bright black, which in B.'s case works out well as his fire place utensils are a flat black also. Five pounds is a standard order of FatWood, so filling the Caddy with a regular order works well. If some is left over, which happens occasionally, B. tucks it in the square place/space that was designed to hold large pieces of Fire Wood. The whole thing works together nicely.
I gave this caddy 4 stars because:
a. It is heavy and stable enough to hold 5 pounds of FatWood, but, in MY opinion, it could have been just a tad heavier. It IS solid and it Does look nice. Wanting the metal to be just a bit heavier is MY personal preference. It is not a detriment to the caddy itself that it is not heavier. It stands upright just fine.
b. The caddy design is fairly plain. I would like it if it were just a bit more ornate. I think it would look to be of better quality if the person who designed it had made it look just a bit more expensive. Again, this is just a personal thing. It is expensive enough as is and it IS ornate enough to be acceptable. I would just like it better if it was a bit more complicated in the design area/department.
c. It is offered in flat black, which in B.'s case, works quite well; however, other people have Fire Place Implements in dark black, bronze, brass etc. I would like to see it offered in a variety of finishes.
d. It easily hold 5 pounds of FatWood; in fact, that is the amount it comes with. But since people are always in the middle of using up a package of this firestarter, it would be nice if the caddy would hold as much as 8 pounds. Then, any extra could go in the caddy and not with the firewood.
These four things certainly do not make the caddy a disaster. They are just the things "I would do better" if someone had hired me to make a firewood caddy. But they did not. So, they are just suggestions. Quite Frankly, just having the option of using a caddy, as opposed to having the extra firewood starter stuck away somewhere in the box it came in is quite the improvement. It looks very nice on the hearth, and the fatwood makes starting the fire a snap. So, I DO recommend this caddy and think it is the nicest that has come on the market to this point in time. So, I definitely recommend this, and think my little gripes are just that: little gripes that do not adversely effect the usability of this very nice caddy. So, I suggest you go ahead and buy it and jusk keep your eyes open incase you are a "design flaw nut" like I am!!! Buy and use in good health!!! Especially if you think it is fine just as it is and are not a "nit picker" like some of the others of us. It is a fine caddy, looks nice, does its job...what more is there, reall, and what more does one really need to have. A nice warm winter to you too.
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This Caddy has enough style to be attractive and still fit in with any decor. It comes fully assembled so all you need to do is open the Fatwood that is included, put it in the Caddy and set it on the Fireplace Hearth. No it does not match my Fireplace tools but with them on one side of the Hearth and the Caddy on the other nobody notices! Price is right, Quality is great, Shipping was fast, this was an all around win!
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