woodworking gloves?

Mine aren't specially for woodworking, but I really like unlined kidskin gloves. They are thin, supple and stop all splinters (so far). Get a nice snug fitting set and they will stretch to a comfortable fit. Too bad I couldn't find mine yesterday when I was working with genuine weatherbeaten barn wood. It's beautiful but I got about six splinter doing the job.

Chuck

Have you looked for gloves at any hardware or big-box store lately? There are a variety of styles of fairly thin, form-fitting gloves that can supposedly be worn while picking up nails and other small pieces, but still have leather or synthetic abrasion-resistant palms for protection. I wore some woodworking for a while, but I found they didn't last too long (the suede between the leather palm pads wore through quickly), and I was always taking them off to feel the smoothness of wood anyway. So I gave up, and only wear gloves while working with very rough stock now. I do knock off a tiny bit of sharp edges with a block plane after I plane and joint stock to size, and that helps with splinters/barked knuckles. I suppose the ideal would be just to build up the calluses on your hands so rough wood isn't hard to handle, but unfortunately I can't do woodworking full-time (yet?...) so my hands end up staying pretty soft for now, and I deal with scrapes and the occasional splinter as they come. Good luck, Andy

These are good. I have been wearing them all year, but not totally splinter proof.

Glove and machine tools DON'T go together. Great way to loose a finger or more.

I use "Carver's Tape", sold by Lee Valley and Woodcraft, on my thumb and forefinger. You can slip it off in one piece, and use the "thimble" oevr and over.

Before I discovered carver's tape, I used hockey tape in the same manner.

trs80 wrote: > I to often will get a splinter when, for example, putting pressure ona a > board against a router table while pushing with the other hand. Are there > gloves meant for wood working to help prevent that?

You are either the biggest dumb f*ck on the planet or a troll.

Lew

I use these and like them a lot.

They seem quite durable, they've stood up to winter of woodwork with only minor damage. Small piece of the latex came off at the base of the thumb.

They also have the non-thermal variety.

against a router table while

prevent that? Id like to have

to hold a pencil and write and

Lew, you really should not hold back. We want to know how you REALLY feel. R!

"trs80" I to often will get a splinter when, for example, putting pressure ona a

Gloves and woodworking machinery don't mix. There is an adhesive tape that you can put on individual fingers that would be a much safer alternative for those time you need some type of protection:

Having an Imus moment? Why couldn't you have explained why gloves aren't such a good idea? You are really getting to be like the little kid in the kindergarten classroom that has to constantly raise his hand with the answer. Shovel the snow off your fiberglass boat and get busy!

Mark

My brother uses these and swears by them. Watch for line wrap.

Don't wear gloves when there is any chance they could be caught by power tools.

Bye-bye finger or hand.

The only gloves I wear are fingerless cycling gloves when I'm turning wood on the lathe. I'd never wear gloves on the router table or table saw or drill press, or band saw, or...

try atlas 370 palmflex gloves- use them at work on night crew at a store often picking up wood pallets with them. Before using gloves I occasionally picked up a splinter that would get infected. Pallets are bad news in that you never know what they have been sitting in or had slapped on top them.The

There was a time when my response to the above would have been to suggest that you perform aerial intercourse with a rotating annular spheroid concentrating your efforts on a centrally located sphinter; however, these days more important ways of spending my time are available.

Perhaps the easiest thing for all concerned is to be placed in each other's respective kill file.

Lew

I like these. They keep my hands warm also: