Shield for my stove for safety

It'll be several inches from the stove glass and air is a fantastic insulator. It'll be fine.

What will be less fine is trying to use the bypass handle or make air adjustments, or even just reloading. Really scratching my head how I can modify it to be able to move it around quickly.

 

I only have a non-contact IR "gun" thermometer and I was thinking it would "look" right through the "glass" door and see the temp of what was on the other side of it like my eyes do. So after reading this, I went down to the woodstove and took some readings "through" the window of the coals inside the stove and it read 650 F so I opened the woodstove door and took a reading of the wood stack through the same area of the "glass" thinking it would read the temp of the stack of wood behind it... But how wrong I was! It measured the same 650 F so it is getting a valid reading of the "glass" temperature. With the door open the coals inside the stove over range my temp gun (higher than 750 F).

That surprised me. What my eye sees and what the IR temp gun sees can be very different. I knew the window would be hot, but I didn't realize that it got that hot... I've been measuring the stove pipes and stove top for years with the IR gun and never really thought about the door window temperature. I always assumed the temp reading when I pointed at the window was the temp of the coals or fire inside the box, but that isn't the case. My assumption got me again...

 

IR temp guns read the reflection off of a surface...they say the most accurate surface to read is a smooth flat black surface... anything other than that may or may not be close to accurate.
20 Mistakes to Avoid When Using an Infrared Thermometer.

 

Agreed. trying to read temp off a glass surface with an IR gun is likely to be off by potentially hundreds of degrees either direction.

That said that glass is RIPPING HOT regardless!