To the OP: congratulations. Looks like a nice stove. I personally like the design and think it looks pretty easy to put together. It doesn't fit my needs, but that doesn't matter. Kudos for taking your idea and running with it! Best of luck!
This whole controversy about disclosure is so full of Bull. I think people should be honest and disclose when they have a vested interest. But I don't see Mr. Caffin disclosing to the newbies that he has a vested interest in producing stoves and tents every time he comments on someone else's. I don't see any of our cottage manufacturers having some identification that they own X company or produce X gear with every post they make. Dan Yeruski, (sorry Dan, like your stoves and all your involvement in stove design here on BPL, but I'm using you as an example because you just posted), provides criticism to the Vertex design but doesn't have to disclose that he produces stoves that fit a similar market niche and could be seen as a competitor.
If BPL wants people to disclose their financial interest in product discussion, they need to be much more consistent about it. Make people have a signature line that say Henry Shires, owner of Tarptent, Dan Yeruski, owner of Zelph Stoves, Tim Marshall, owner of Enlightened Equipment, Roger Caffin, owner of highly over engineered brainiac camping gear (or whatever). If you want transparency, BPL should practice what it preaches rather than jumping on new arrivals.
