Gloves, Gloves, Gloves

I can add a bit on wear and tear. The regular mechanix gloves have excellent dexterity and work great for rough but not sharp metals and rubber items like they were designed to handle. On wood it's okay. Wear resistance against concrete or even cardboard isn't that great. The best wearing gloves I've used for that are the rubber treated fabric or nitrile chemical gloves (not the thin medical style ones). The wells lamont leather ones have actually been some of the better ones all around, but I've noticed that when it gets hot and sweaty they seem to stretch out and slide a bit on my hands, and I'm not a fan of the feeling of damp leather gloves. Right now I'm using these FG camo utility gloves from home depot, they're pretty similar to the mechanix gloves material wise but they fit my hand better and honestly seem like a better product unless you need the extra clearance/dexterity of the thin Mechanix gloves.
 
Sweet and simple
Wells Lamont leather driver gloves with eleastic in the back from Walmarts
Last for ever
 
I bought some HexArmor gloves after FortyTwoBlades recommended them in a different glove thread a few months back.

They are no joke. I'm waiting till after the holidays, and a new PC build, for some extra cash to pick up a different model. Check them out, gloves for everything in all sorts of configurations.

The ones I bought for outdoor use ended up at work, they were just too good not to use.
 
Nickelsig229 said:
I bought some HexArmor gloves after FortyTwoBlades recommended them in a different glove thread a few months back.

They are no joke. I'm waiting till after the holidays, and a new PC build, for some extra cash to pick up a different model. Check them out, gloves for everything in all sorts of configurations.

The ones I bought for outdoor use ended up at work, they were just too good not to use.
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Glad you're liking them! I'm addicted to SuperFabric--it's seriously cool stuff and HexArmor puts it to phenomenal use! I want to get their HexJacket at some point but it's about $700 and made to order. :D
 
Happy to hear the Hexarmor made gloves hold up well, I actually found another company that made nice looking gardening and work gloves with superfabric at some nice prices but apparently had poor stitching quality. Glad I read a few reviews before I got some to try out.
 
I forget which company it is, but there's a fishing gear company that makes some SuperFabric gloves as well. The really cool thing about SuperFabric is it's an enhancement process--the plates can be printed on almost any textile. The only thing I've heard they can't do it on is leather.
 
I don't wear gloves outside unless it is cold or I am metal detecting and pawing through the dirt. B.T.W., try not to dig in your ears when messing around in the dirt. I got a couple of raging ear infections that way until I clued in. Animals and people urinate\defecate in the damndest places, which is were we seem to end up.
 
Yeah I only tend to wear gloves when I absolutely need them. Like when I'm clearing up construction debris full of rusty nails. :D
 
I have given up for now in finding Mechanix gloves or copies that fit. I can't even get my hands into an XL. I think that they use Chinese piano player hands as a template.
 
FortyTwoBlades said:
Glad you're liking them! I'm addicted to SuperFabric--it's seriously cool stuff and HexArmor puts it to phenomenal use! I want to get their HexJacket at some point but it's about $700 and made to order. :D
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Cool. I just picked up some Danners (on the cheap) made from SuperFabric. I hope the new shoes will hold up for awhile...
 
Which Hex Armor glove do you suggest for an urban GHB? I'm envisioning having to move glass/metal debris. Needle contact not anticipated. Thanx in advance
 
Any of the extrication gloves on their website should be good, as well as most of the mechanic's styles. Aside from that it's a matter of where you priorities lie, they have two mechanics/extrication gloves with full front and back hand cut protection(4023, 4025) but they're also stiffer than the palm only models. The oil rigging gloves like the 4021x have very high impact protection instead of back hand cut protection, but again I'm guessing the thick rubber impact guards will impede dexterity a little bit, the added protection to smashing injuries seems first rate and might make up for it. Just looking at the specs and the few user evaluations I've seen any of those 3 would be the top pick.

I just put an order in for the 4020x's, Admittedly the look of them just drew me in, I'll be checking to see if they can be used for handling dry flat materials, they're really designed for oil saturated conditions on rigging tools and cable and I'm wondering how well that surface (hard mineral loaded epoxy superfabric with silicone/pvc gripping dots) will function in more general purpose work.
 
The thick rubber impact padding is actually nice and flexible. I own the 4020X's personally--great gloves though the gripping dots rub off fast since they're printed on top of the SuperFabric palm without a synthetic leather covering like the 4021x's. You really don't need them though--the SuperFabric patterning is one of their most aggressive one and has clearly defined edges to the plates that give you good grip. Frickin' TOUGH gloves. I've also got a pair of roper gloves that SuperFabric themselves made that have one of their patterns designed for abrasion resistance rather than cut resistance and they work great as well. Little densely packed rounded dots on those. :)
 
The plain jane heavy duty work gloves that all the hardware stores carry...My activities were clearing out campsites with a machete,(lots of nasty jagger bushes/vines etc).....Gathering and sawing up firewood..Digging the crapper and,, "most importantly",, lifting alluminum foil meals,cans of beans or soup out of the fire..I get the thick leather ones that are around 5 bucks..they get abused and are cheap and work perfectely for me..

I do like more expensive insulated gloves for shoveling snow/hunting/fishing in the winter..But all my summer activities I use the 5 buck work gloves..
CD
 
Leather Will not Melt at the heat! and if you look around Good outdoor stuff And Cheap. {Garden Supply Stuff}
 
Sorry--what melts in the heat? I've never had gloves melt on me. :confused:
 
If you stick your hands in the fire for a few seconds then the synthetic leather gloves will melt. A few more seconds and they might just catch fire too.

Solution: don't stick your hands in fire.
 
Yeah--sticking my hands in fires is something I distinctly avoid, so that probably explains my unfamiliarity with having my gloves melt off my hands. :D
 
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