I've started wearing gloves and like it-- is a skirt next

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tmickley

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After taking the summer off from cutting, burning, scratching, grinding, scraping, staining my fingers and knife making in general I started back up again. It took about 3 hours and my baby soft hands were burnt, nicked, scraped just like normal so I put on some gloves. I found I picked up a lot of speed since the blade can get quite a bit hotter before dunking and wiping. I'm going to wear the darn things for awhile until I get a real urge to put on a skirt and wear makeup.
 
For all my grinding I use ZUG leather gloves available at Home Depot. Fit real nice and wear well, and I still have all my fingerprints.


WYK
 
I hope you guys stay safe, because gloves and moving machinery are a very big no-no.I have seen and heard of too many people hurt wearing gloves, jewelery, loose clothing etc.Dave
 
tmickley said:
After taking the summer off from cutting, burning, scratching, grinding, scraping, staining my fingers and knife making in general I started back up again. It took about 3 hours and my baby soft hands were burnt, nicked, scraped just like normal so I put on some gloves. I found I picked up a lot of speed since the blade can get quite a bit hotter before dunking and wiping. I'm going to wear the darn things for awhile until I get a real urge to put on a skirt and wear makeup.
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Dude, take the gloves off. It is probably the most unsafe thing you can do around grinding and drilling equipment. I personally know 2 people seriously injured this way. One had a tendon in his hand severed by a grinding wheel on a surface grinder. After 2 surgeries he can straighten his index finger about 70% of the way. The other person had severe tendon damage when a 12"disc grinder grabbed the glove and broke his fingers. Fortunately for him the glove was mostly yanked off and caught between the tool rest and disc and stopped the disc before it ground into his hand.
 
Well, this is one I have mixed feelings about. I started learining with tight-fitting leather gloves (that I cut and modify for grinding), and I would NEVER buff a knife without heavy gloves BUT I started this way and learned this way and have done it for 10 years now.

Picking up gloves half-way through your career (and rusty) sound like a very bad idea, indeed. :confused: And gloves around a drill press is an invitation to a mangled arm from the elbow down if it is a powerful drill.

Jim Hrisoulas wears gloves for all his grinding.

I admit eagerly, however, that loose, floppy gloves are like bait for a shark around some equipment (like a disc sander! OUCH!!).
 
I wear gloves for all my grinding except hollow grinding. Staying alert and consious of what you are doing prevents mishaps more then wearing gloves. Gloves have saved me numerous times from being cut. I guess the bottom line is whatever you get used to.
Scott
 
If you allow the steel to get hotter and think that the gloves will protect you, you're in for a surprise. The gloves can absorb the heat from the blade and actually burn you worse than if you were not wearing them. Your skin won't feel the heat and tell yor brain to let go or cool the blade off till it's too late.

Welding gloves are made to be worn oversize so if they get too hot you can fling them off of the same hand. If your gloves are too tight you will continue to get burned while using to other hand to get the glove off. A glove will also protect your hand while grinding, till it gets pulled into the grinder.

Cuts, scrapes, burns, punctures, band-aids and blood are knifemaker status symbols!! :thumbup:
 
Getting hurt wearing gloves............. Not a matter of "IF", just a matter of "WHEN".

Gettin hurt NOT wearing gloves..........Not a matter of "IF", just a matter of "WHEN".

I only wear them when forging or welding/cutting. Of course my old hands look like they have been through a meat grinder many times.

Robert
 
Like the others...I use 'me and not use 'em...


But I use very snug-fitting, thick-rubber, synthetic gloves. It's like having an extra layer of skin. I still use leather gloves at the forge and welder, duh....:D But these are great at the grinder when hogging. When I move to higher grits, I take the gloves off and slow the motor down.
 
Roosko said:
Getting hurt wearing gloves............. Not a matter of "IF", just a matter of "WHEN".

Gettin hurt NOT wearing gloves..........Not a matter of "IF", just a matter of "WHEN".

I only wear them when forging or welding/cutting. Of course my old hands look like they have been through a meat grinder many times.

Robert
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Well, yes and no. I been wearing gloves doing machinery work and what not for a few years. It's loose-fitting gloves that will do ya in. If you get a pair that fit right, it won't be grabbed by machinery anymore than your skin would. I generally wear very thin gloves, and have had machinery pull leather from 'em. I would imagine if I wore very thick welding gloves that it could have grabbed my hand. But to date - I have only been injured when I didn't have gloves on. And I have been around machinery that will work ya much worse than any 1HP belt sander could ever do.

Once you get used to having a good pair of gloves on, you can do most any work with them on, down to detail work. But, as I said, they have to fit well.

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WYK
 
I've been trying a compromise for grinding. Leather carving guards on the thumb and first finger of my support hand. They're loose enough to come of easily if pulled and provide just enough protection to let me grind with control instead of flinching.

Dan Pierson
 
I forge/ grind/ buff/ drill in only a jockstrap and a light coat of oil. It works for me. :D
 
I'm a ..."gulp"...user. I use the same gloves I tig weld in for forging and grinding. Everything that's been said above is true, but I still choose to wear them. There has been several times I have felt the belt on the glove and was able to pull back. I'll probably continue to wear gloves until (not "unless", but "until") I have an accident, and will re-evaluate things from there. But hey, I'm leaving my jockstrap on, I HATE sunburns.
 
I only wear gloves when I'm grinding with belts bellow 100 grit. they're tight fitting kevlar, and I dip as often as I do bare handed. I never wear gloves when hand forging, always do for the power hammer, they're thick leather gauntlet gloves.

I'll wear a kilt when forging, but not when demonstrating to a mixed crowd, I don't want to knock the anvil over if a pretty girl in a low cut blouse walks by after all. ;) :D

I should add, I don't have work rests on any of my grinders, that's a injury waiting to happen.
 
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