Recommendation? Gloves for G10 grinding

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I want to protect my hands while grinding G10 (fiberglass). Recommendations on a good type of glove?

I suspect that cloth would capture the fibers and allow them to creep through or transfer to anything else they touch.
Nitrile might not provide enough protection.
Leather?

Trying to balance grinder-pinching safety and G10 safety.
 
Nitrile Gloves and a long sleeve hoodie that you don't care about. Put the gloves on and duct tape down the hoodie to the gloves.

Vacuum yourself off before you remove the duct tape, then take the tape off, and remove the hoodie by turning it inside out.

Fiberglass and carbon fiber suck.
 
+1 on the hoodie and nitrile gloves. I also cut the tip of the thumbs off the gloves too, before I put them on
 
Nitrile gloves are the only thing I would consider wearing. Gloves around spinning items are not a good fit. I guess I don't know why you would need to wear gloves for grinding.
 
J. Hoffman said:
Nitrile gloves are the only thing I would consider wearing. Gloves around spinning items are not a good fit. I guess I don't know why you would need to wear gloves for grinding.
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Agree that spinning stuff tends to grab, and is a safety consideration. Nitrile should tear away easy enough to not be a significant problem.

Regarding why they would be needed: The grinder is sending glass particles towards my hands at high speed, which at the very least results in significant itching to any exposed skin.
Although not part of the original post, I extend this concern to other materials such as oily tropical woods. They may have exposure problems while grinding that I would like to mitigate without compromising grinder safety.

I agree on the hoodie suggestions; many have perished at my hands.
 
J. Hoffman said:
Nitrile gloves are the only thing I would consider wearing. Gloves around spinning items are not a good fit. I guess I don't know why you would need to wear gloves for grinding.
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I've worn Nitrile gloves at times while grinding both steel and G10. As was mentioned above I want to protect my hands as much as possible from the G10. Additionally, my fingers are quite sensitive to heat and if I'm grinding hard on a piece longer than say 8" I either end up pulling away before I've finished a line or get a blister. And I've had them tear that way also. I've never had a problem with them catching. Even the 5mm ones just break or tear. Sometimes I don't even notice until later.
 
I have a pound can of cyanite eggs and five pounds of mercury, but almost no G-10 in the shop. I use the cyanide, and used to use the mercury in gold refining, but leave the G-10 on the shelf.
 
Seriously- there is no need to use G 10 that I can think of. There are other, safer materials that will do the same thing.
 
You are exaggerating things in this thread, about G10. The comparisons made are way out of proportion, with mercury etc. G10 isn't toxic, and it's not a carcinogen.
The dust from G10 is an irritant. Depending on the person and the amount if exposure, it can cause things like dermatitis and obstructive airway disease. So can dust from wood and micarta.
 
Scaniaman said:
You are exaggerating things in this thread, about G10. The comparisons made are way out of proportion, with mercury etc. G10 isn't toxic, and it's not a carcinogen.
The dust from G10 is an irritant. Depending on the person and the amount if exposure, it can cause things like dermatitis and obstructive airway disease. So can dust from wood and micarta.
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I agree. Protect your lungs, but that goes with everything else that is being ground. Unless you think its cool to belong to the black booger club, keep fine particles of glass fibres, metals, wood, plastics out of your lungs. Next, protect your eyes. And of course your hearing. Unless you are somehow suddenly able to absorb these particles through your skin and into you bloodsteam and lungs, its an irritant. Some are more sensitive than others, and if it bothers you, cover up. But as mentioned above make sure your being safe around the grinder. You wont care too much about the irritation from the glass fibres if you get an arm pulled into the grinder from it snagging your hoodie or gauntlet gloves.
 
I love working with G10, no matter what I grind I have a fan blowing across the grinder and I keep the G10 wet.

Love the way it looks and it is one of the most durable handle material we use.

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Bill DeShivs said:
I have the perfect solution in my shop.
I don't use G10.
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I am putting a knife together for a friend that prefers G10 or Micarta handles, well he is getting curly maple, because I tried working with those materials and they drive my allergies crazy. That said some woods do too. I got covered in Thuya burl a few moths ago and all my exposed skin turned red and itchy. It was over 100 degF and humid in my garage/shop so I chose to wear a sleeveless shirt that day, I wont do that again! A shower and 3 Allegra sorted things out, kinda.
 
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I'll have to look for it, but I've found a study in the past that shows that G10 dust is every bit as dangerous as asbestos dust.

G10 feels like crap in the hand anyways. I see no reason to have anything to do with it.
 
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