Having a tiny kitchen, its sometimes hard to find space to place things. I decided to make these wooden burner covers for my gas stove. This will provide a little bit more flat space to set things and I think they will be very useful.

I began with some air dried Aspen that I cut on my chainsaw mill. After sanding it flat, I drew a straight line along one edge of the live edge board. Then, on the bandsaw, I ripped off the live edge. After a couple passes on the jointer I could run that edge against the fence on my tablesaw to get a flat and square board. This is a method I have been wanting to experiment with since we discussed it on one of my weekly live streams. It worked out awesome.

With the board sides parallel, I trimmed it to length using my miter gauge. Then I began ripping some strips of Elm to use to wrap the piece of Aspen. I resawed the Elm into thinner strips and cut 45 degree miters using my homemade miter sled. Now its just a matter of gluing and clamping the trim pieces to the Aspen board. After the glue dried, I sanded it all down and applied a few coats of General Finishes Salad Bowl Finish. Once the finish was dry, I cut some thin strips of adhesive backed cork and stuck it to the bottom to prevent rubbing and rattling while it sits on the stove.

This is a very simple project, and shouldn’t take too much time to build. It has already proved to be very useful as another usable surface in my small kitchen, and was well worth the time to make these.

Check out the build video here.

Here is the Miter Sled Video

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***Note*** Do not place these on a hot stove grate. These should only be used when the burners are cool. It may sound obvious but a stove burner and a wooden cover do not mix well. Use caution so you don’t set these on fire. That will be bad. Home Built Workshop LLC is not responsible for any damage that may occur due to misuse of an item like this.

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