Woodworking Gloves

Lately I've been handling a lot of rough wood in the process of buying timber and dressing it. I've noticed lots of little cuts and splinters on my hands and a blister every now and then.

This doesn't unduly bother me, but I work in the medical industry where my hands are important. I'm not sure how comforting it is for the patient when they see my rough hands, and having breaks in my skin is an infection risk for me...

So gloves...

I need some that are comfortable, don't become gross with sweat, tough on the palm for planing, covers the tips for splinter protection, allow me still to have fine control, are not too expensive, and don't make me look like a fool.

Any ideas on suppliers?

How about soft leather work gloves?

Go to the gardening section of your hardware store.
they have gloves that have a rubber gripping section in the fingers and palm of your hand and the backing is an open weave material.
Ideal for all the jobs described.
And gardening if so inclined.

How about Riggers gloves
Don't know what there retail name is but it the trade they are simply called rigger glover or pigskin gloves (don't think they are made of pigskin).

http://www2.blackwoods.com.au/infoBA...3257&P=2023684

Some where like an industrial wholesalers or maybe an electrical wholesaler may stock them.

Boz,
I'd go along with Nev25. I use riggers gloves for handling most stuff but they are not "delicate" enough for you to keep on when doing fine work because they"don't fit like a glove" as it were. Because of this I think there's a safety issue because there's a danger of them getting caught in rotating machinery and the like.

Ian

yep
riggers gloves work for me too
probably wouldn't stop a decent splinter (a go to the doctor one)
but stop all the those little nigglers

Go down your local motorbike shop and get some off road gloves. I use 'em all the time, a bit more expensive ($30-$40) but they're light, they breath and they give fairly good finger control..... and they come in all sorts of pretty colours:D:D:D

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Originally Posted by nev25

How about Riggers gloves
Don't know what there retail name is but it the trade they are simply called rigger glover or pigskin gloves .

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Bunnings have them usually about $14 or free from SIL in my case :2tsup:

Riggers gloves are a good thing..... just try to get the pale coloured ones.

The darker yellow ones shed their dye when they get wet.... that'll turn your hands.... well.... yellow:o

Buy several pairs at a time.....I wear them when i'm handling anything rough.

I find I wear the tips of the fingers out on the right hand without too much difficulty..... better than wearing out the tips of your fingers.

cheers

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Go to the gardening section of your hardware store.
they have gloves that have a rubber gripping section in the fingers and palm of your hand and the backing is an open weave material.
Ideal for all the jobs described.
And gardening if so inclined.

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Also, (in ours) in the dishwashing glove section at Coles. 3 sizes, breathable woven stretchy material with rubber section over fingers and palm. Brand is Ansell HyFlex, looking at about $5 a pair. Worth every cent. They come in different colours, red, pale blue, and black (my fave, which sells out the quickest)
A total reccomendation for them, they are totally great, (from a small handed sheila's perspective, for who all riggers gloves are way too big)

For handling rough stuff use the riggers gloves

For general work I'd try some cotton gloves from the supermarket.
They fit nicely and you won't lose much sensitivity
They won't last long but you can get a packet of 4 pairs under $2

SWMBO bought me a pair of those very expensive ironclad? riggers gloves. Yes the price is ridiculous but they are by far the most comfortable gloves I have every owned. I wear them when I'm handling big timber slabs, especially boxwood which seems to offer up many more splinters than anything else I mill.

For chainsaw work I started suffering from whitefinger of the trigger finger so bought an even more expensive pair of gel padded gloves - they are a little bulky and not as comfy as the riggers but they sure do reduce the vibes and the whitefinger has now gone. If I need to do any extended angle grinding or ROS work I've started using them as well. My ROS is an - ozito! - it works fine but the vibes are handnumbing. I used to borrow my brothers festool ROS - now that's a nice bit of kit - but with the antivibe gloves I can tolerate the ozito.

Inside the shed I use the arm length pigskin for welding and short stints of angle grinding and latex ones when I'm painting, otherwise no gloves so the calluses can build up otherwise my hands are too soft to do anything useful.

I use vinyl when epoxy gluing white cotton when oiling and riggers gloves when handling large roughsawn timber.

When I am carving with a Dremel, I use leather golfing gloves ( or leather driving gloves). The driving gloves seem to be harder to come by now days.

Don't use them for shifting larger rougher timber, but seeing that they stand up to that occasional slip of the burr/sander, I wouldn't be surpised if they were thick enough to stop splinters.

Gloves are fine when handling timber etc. but they should not be worn when using any type of machinery that has moving parts.

I had a fieldhand injure himself while using an auger to drill holes in soft ground (he did breach operating procedures mind you). The auger wasn't spinning fast (luckily) but it did grab his glove (the yellow rigger's gloves that people are mentioning here) and wrench his arm around the auger. Fortunately the operator was fast on the kill switch.
He ended up with a very bruised and strained wrist.

Now imagine if you were wearing these and you were using a drill press, drop saw etc. and your glove got caught - it does not bear thinking about. And you probably won't have an offsider to press the kill switch.