Until recently I've always used the traditional hide "gardening" gloves for handling blocks, etc, and put up with cuts and splinters as an inevitable consequence of most lighter building DIY because you have to take them off for anything more delicate.
But this type
You get enough "touch" to keep them on while drilling brickwork, plugging and screwing, sawing timber and doing basic carpentry with wood chisels, etc. I've been climbing up and down a scaffold tower while repairing and painting facia boards, fitting new guttering and downpipes, and you can just leave them on for everything.
Also, they come up more or less as new if you sling them in the washing machine at the end of the day with the jeans and boiler suit.
Really impressed.