Abstract: A novel burner, e.g. for a gaseous fuel is provided herein. The burner is an improvement on the conventional hand-held blowpipe type of burner including a cylindrical housing, a nozzle body provided with a mixing chamber, an axial gas inlet port to the mixing chamber, a plurality of radial air inlet ports to the mixing chamber, and an axially extending burner tube connected to the mixing chamber. The mixed gas is substantially completely burned in the burner tube. The improvement is an add-on to the conventional burner and takes the form of a self-cooling shield. The shield includes a disc-like, centrally apertured baffle secured at the extreme forward end of the cylindrical housing with the axially extending burner tube projecting through the central aperture thereof. The shield also includes an outer tubular member, secured concentrically to the cylindrical housing by a disc-like centrally apertured rear wall, the central aperture surrounding the cylindrical housing and being secured thereto.