woodworking gloves?

Just in case.... That was a joke! ;)

There are some folks that are of the opinion that gloves should never be worn while woodworking. I'm not one of them. I don't stick my bare hand (too) near to moving blades, nor do I do so with a gloved hand. Is there a possibility that a blade will catch your glove and rip your whole hand off or into the blade? Maybe, but more likely it'll just cut the glove before it cuts your finger. I wear snug- fitting gloves with a rubbery grip a lot when I'm working with rough sawn or as found timber. And hemlock or Douglas Fir frequently give cause to pull them out too. Catching a sliver halfway through a rip and pulling your hands away in pain is dangerous too, IMO.

JP

Hear, hear. Not to mention having 8 inches worth of roughsawn pushed through your unprotected hand while ripping 'cause you've hit a knot or some funny grain or a wet spot and you're getting a spot of kickback. That is not a fun experience as I can attest (happened only once, but once is enough).

I also insist on wearing gloves when I am working with an inverted belt sander that's clamped into the bench so I can pre-finish something that is free-form. That's saved my skin more than once when I slipped.

I use tight fitting, thin rigger gloves. Plenty of fingertip sensitivity and they're so tight that anything that would catch them would do serious damage to my careless fingers (and I keep those well clear; I am just as careful if not more when wearing gloves - for the obvious reasons).

-P.

Not "while woodworking", but while operating woodworking machinery. The rest of the industrial world, when utilizing machinery, has learned to discourage the practice for good and practical safety reasons. That said, those insisting on learning the hard way are certainly free to exercise their options.

"Lew Hodgett" wrote

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Max

Material handling is a good time to wear gloves. Rough lumber, even from a band mill can be tough on the hands. When it comes time to joint, plane or saw, off they come.

I've been to more than a few hand maimings, and gloves really add to the damage, even if they don't necessarily catch and cause. Your body has become fairly familiar with where its parts are, so adding an extension is asking for trouble.

Still, there are those who believe that old baloney about being saved from injury because they weren't wearing their seatbelts.

Natural selection.

Relax, take a pill.

Use push sticks, not gloves, with machinery.

YES, YES I do. I have really big hands so no matter what gloves I wear it feels like the fingers of the glove stop half way down my fingers. I think this is a job for Lee Valley...

Mon, Apr 16, 2007, 6:29pm (EDT+4) snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.net (Lew=A0Hodgett) doth smootly sayeth: You are either the biggest dumb f*ck on the planet or a troll.

Damn Lew, wish I was a smooth talker like you. LMAO I thought he was just an idiot.

The only time I wear gloves in connecton with woodworking is for loadng, or unloading, rough lumber or wood; and seldom wear them for any other reason either.

You get a splinter, you can put some glue on it, let the glue dry, peel the glue off, the splinter goes with it. Or just pull it out with yor fingers. Or pulol it out with your teeth. Or pull it out with tweezers. Or dig it out with a needle. Or just be careful in the first place.

JOAT I have anal glaucoma. I can't see my ass going to work today.

Wearing gloves operating machines I find necessary at times but I use disposable ones, mainly with poplar which irritates my skin. The blue ones, does not protect against splinters though. I use carpenter gloves to move fresh milled stock though.

But any jewelry is long gone before I grab the ladder to crawl up to the roof, USAF cured me of any notion that wearing a ring or watch while climbing is safe on anything other than my wife.

Mark (sixoneeight) = 618

I wore my High School ring while in the Navy. I was on a heavy cruiser that served as a flagship for the 6th fleet. Every exposed hand rail had macrame knotted cord as a decoration. I used a hand rail to swing down into a compartment one time and the ring caught on the macrame and almost took off my finger. It cut a nice gouge in the flesh. I never wore it after that

USAF cured me of any notion that wearing a ring or watch

Where it's obligatory, if she's like mine was. Didn't wear one pretty much ever again after dumping a check in UPT for not removing one. Think SWMBO looked at the pay scale and figured the harassed look was enough to brand me as married, and the extra cash went to her anyway. I got an allowance.

Sorry, Jay, Especially with today's fabrics, it is very unlikely the cut will be clean, neat and fast.

Gloves and power tools are still a very poor mix. Until the day finger and hand transplants are routine and cheap, and pain can be removed with thought, they always will be.

You don't stick your bare hand near moving blades. Fine. Neither do the rest of us, though I've known patternmakers who work within one inch of a table saw blade...made my skin crawl. But on occasion, there is a slip. If my hand slides into a blade accidentally, for whatever reason, I prefer to be able to snatch it back without having to fight the resistance of material that is almost suitable for use as tire cord.

While I agree that work gloves are a bad idea, latex or nitrile gloves will tear quite quickly which is what I use with wood that makes my hands itch. Yes I have been cut twice buy a tablesaw (TS220LS) and it was without gloves.

Mark

Using gloves around moving ropes (or "lines" for the yachtsmen) or around whirling machinery (like saw blades or router bits) isn't recommended by nearly every safety manual or instruction I've seen.

They can be "nicked" and your hand drawn into the machinery and you won't feel the nick... just the "hand-drawn-into" part.

Yes, yachtsmen wear gloves, but they typically have no tips on the fingers.

the no-tipped gloves are so one can untie something, which is rather hard to do with fingered gloves. if i didn't use gloves on my sailboat, i wouldn't have any skin left. i know of no yachts-people who actually pull lines who do not use gloves.

regards, charlie

I have done plenty of sailing and carpentry and I still have the tips on all my fingers.