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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? Id like to have something I could wear the entire time so they would have to be supple enought to hold a pencil and write and hold a small steel rulter so the thick leather construction gloves wont work for that. thanks |
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On Apr 16, 12:51 pm, "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? Id like to have something I could wear the entire time so they would have to be supple enought to hold a pencil and write and hold a small steel rulter so the thick leather construction gloves wont work for that. thanks 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 |
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gloves meant for wood working to help prevent that? Id like to have something I could wear the entire time so they would have to be supple enought to hold a pencil and write and hold a small steel rulter so the thick leather construction gloves wont work for that. thanks 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 |
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"trs80" wrote in message ... 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? Id like to have something I could wear the entire time so they would have to be supple enought to hold a pencil and write and hold a small steel rulter so the thick leather construction gloves wont work for that. thanks These are good. I have been wearing them all year, but not totally splinter proof. http://www.irwin.com/irwin/consumer/...IrwinCat100556 |
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"Tim W" wrote in message ... These are good. I have been wearing them all year, but not totally splinter proof. http://www.irwin.com/irwin/consumer/...IrwinCat100556 the carpenters gloves on that page i mean. |
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Glove and machine tools DON'T go together. Great way to loose a finger or
more. "trs80" wrote in message ... 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? Id like to have something I could wear the entire time so they would have to be supple enought to hold a pencil and write and hold a small steel rulter so the thick leather construction gloves wont work for that. thanks |
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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? 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. |
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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? snip You are either the biggest dumb **** on the planet or a troll. Lew |
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I use these and like them a lot.
http://www.leevalley.com/garden/page...=2,42407,33246 They are a very good fit, 'grippy' enough pick up just about everything. The thermal qualities aren't great, they aren't that thick. Good tactile feel, I got used to them quickly. 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. http://www.leevalley.com/garden/page...=2,42407,33246 David. "trs80" wrote in message ... 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? Id like to have something I could wear the entire time so they would have to be supple enought to hold a pencil and write and hold a small steel rulter so the thick leather construction gloves wont work for that. thanks |
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"trs80" wrote in message 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? Id like to have something I could wear the entire time so they would have to be supple enought to hold a pencil and write and hold a small steel rulter so the thick leather construction gloves wont work for that. thanks 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: http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?p...=finger%20tape -- www.e-woodshop.net Last update: 2/20/07 |
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On Apr 16, 2:29 pm, Lew Hodgett wrote:
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? snip You are either the biggest dumb **** on the planet or a troll. Lew 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! |
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good idea. Ill check it out. thanks
"Andy" wrote in message oups.com... Are there gloves meant for wood working to help prevent that? Id like to have something I could wear the entire time so they would have to be supple enought to hold a pencil and write and hold a small steel rulter so the thick leather construction gloves wont work for that. thanks 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 |
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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? Id like to have something I could wear the entire time so they would have to be supple enought to hold a pencil and write and hold a small steel rulter so the thick leather construction gloves wont work for that. thanks My brother uses these and swears by them. Watch for line wrap. http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/pro...uct%5Fid=21440 -- Gerald Ross Cochran, GA Some days it isn't worth chewing through the restraints. |
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thanks. I just saw those as Sears this afternoon. They were good fitting
would do the job for me. Does he use them for woodworking? "Gerald Ross" wrote in message news:IqRUh.7884$vD4.6741@bigfe9... 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? Id like to have something I could wear the entire time so they would have to be supple enought to hold a pencil and write and hold a small steel rulter so the thick leather construction gloves wont work for that. thanks My brother uses these and swears by them. Watch for line wrap. http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/pro...uct%5Fid=21440 -- Gerald Ross Cochran, GA Some days it isn't worth chewing through the restraints. |
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In article , 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? Id like to have something I could wear the entire time so they would have to be supple enought to hold a pencil and write and hold a small steel rulter so the thick leather construction gloves wont work for that. thanks 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... -- I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. - Margaret Thatcher |
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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 370 gloves are flexible with the nylon knit body and the nitrile palm. Pat |
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I like these. They keep my hands warm also:
http://tinyurl.com/24gug8 -- Stoutman www.garagewoodworks.com |
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On Apr 16, 7:21 pm, "patrick mitchel" wrote:
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 370 gloves are flexible with the nylon knit body and the nitrile palm. Pat I give the nod to these too. What I'd really like to see is a dedicated "ripping glove" that has some flexible UHMW plastic in the side of the index finger and thumb so you can use your (left) hand as a human finger board. Does anyone know what I mean? I wrap duct-tape around the index finger,which works for a while. In any event, the Atlas 370 or similar gloves are great. JP |
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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 |
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"Jay Pique" wrote in message
There are some folks that are of the opinion that gloves should never be worn while woodworking. 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. -- www.e-woodshop.net Last update: 2/20/07 |
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"Lew Hodgett" wrote 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 So you're too busy for this trivia? Max |
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"Swingman" wrote in message ... "Jay Pique" wrote in message There are some folks that are of the opinion that gloves should never be worn while woodworking. 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. 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. |
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:29:36 GMT, Lew Hodgett
wrote: 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? snip You are either the biggest dumb **** on the planet or a troll. Lew Relax, take a pill. |
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:51:57 GMT, "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? Id like to have something I could wear the entire time so they would have to be supple enought to hold a pencil and write and hold a small steel rulter so the thick leather construction gloves wont work for that. thanks Use push sticks, not gloves, with machinery. |
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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... "Jay Pique" wrote in message oups.com... On Apr 16, 7:21 pm, "patrick mitchel" wrote: 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 370 gloves are flexible with the nylon knit body and the nitrile palm. Pat I give the nod to these too. What I'd really like to see is a dedicated "ripping glove" that has some flexible UHMW plastic in the side of the index finger and thumb so you can use your (left) hand as a human finger board. Does anyone know what I mean? I wrap duct-tape around the index finger,which works for a while. In any event, the Atlas 370 or similar gloves are great. JP |
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Markem wrote:
(Lew Hodgett) doth smoothly sayeth: You are either the biggest dumb **** on the planet or a troll. 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 -- Bill In Hamptonburgh, NY |
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"Markem" wrote in message ... 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 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. |
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On Apr 16, 9:38�pm, Jay Pique wrote:
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. 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. |
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On 19 Apr 2007 03:30:45 -0700, Charlie Self
wrote: On Apr 16, 9:38?pm, Jay Pique wrote: There are some folks that are of the opinion that gloves should never be worn while woodworking. 'm not one of them. don't stick my bare hand (too) near to moving blades, nor do I do so with a gloved hand. s there a possibility that a blade will catch your glove and rip your whole hand off or into the blade? aybe, but more likely it'll just cut the glove before it cuts your finger. 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 http://home.mchsi.com/~xphome/ |
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:51:57 GMT, "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? Id like to have something I could wear the entire time so they would have to be supple enought to hold a pencil and write and hold a small steel rulter so the thick leather construction gloves wont work for that. thanks 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. |
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"Cal" wrote in message ... On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:51:57 GMT, "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? Id like to have something I could wear the entire time so they would have to be supple enought to hold a pencil and write and hold a small steel rulter so the thick leather construction gloves wont work for that. thanks 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 |
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"Cal" wrote in message ... On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:51:57 GMT, "trs80" wrote: [...] Yes, yachtsmen wear gloves, but they typically have no tips on the fingers. I have done plenty of sailing and carpentry and I still have the tips on all my fingers. |
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