Simple Question ???

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dax51

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How do you keep your hands clean? and nice?
I think I just had to scrub a gazillion layers of skin off with a stone ad they still look dirty.
What's the secret?
 
they make a liquid that you can put on your hands that protects them from alot of different things. Ariel used some when he made his mycarta tutorial to keep the resin from sticking to his hands.

other than that, or work gloves....Fast Orange has always worked well for me when working on cars. Acetone works but dries your hands out terribly.
 
I wear rubber gloves, the thin kind for all work. They not only protect your hands from dirt and grease but the toxic and irratable effects of G10, micarts and some woods. There is only a few occasions working of folders that I need to take them off to work. I will usually use 1 pair for about 2 hours before the tear and I get the cheap ones.
 
Real simple answer........ Quit fooling with knives and get a real job.:D

I am typing this with my nose because I am so ashamed of how my hands look that I keep them in my pockets.:eek:

On a slightly more serious note..... Try using "Cornhusker's Lotion" Your local Wally-world should have it. Anything with lanolin will not only help clean down in those cracks, but also help the cracks heal a bit.
 
yup, rubber gloves work well. I rather like the nitrile gloves more than the latex. I hate the smell of latex and the nitrile is a stronger glove.
 
I use the mechanics hand cleaner called "goop"....but my fingernails are always gunked up.....my day job is in an office and I used to worry about it but after a while I decided to carry the gunk with pride that I am not simply a paper pusher.
 
It's a good thing you are married . If you are going to work with the high carbon steels you would never get a date or at least not be able to touch her :D
 
Hahahaha - I was thinking the same thing. Most guys that have their hand in their knife picture always look like mine.
 
We keep a boxes of the blue disposable gloves around the shop like you see in the hospital for when using solvents and wood finishes. They are cheap and my fingers don't look like I have been putting them where they shouldn't be anymore.
 
I met my wife when I had black under my fingernails, the first time she met me at my shop in Ithaca (at my mother's house so I could have a permanent location for my 2 ton lathe) there were some photostudents coming down from Rochester to photograph me forging a blade, they were late, so I had my mother's tractor all apart in the yard so I could weld the frame back together with fishplates made from an old bedframe, she was convinced it would never work again, but watched me put it together, I got her a beer from the fridge, them forged an opener out of a piece of a crowbar and opened her beer, then she watched me forge a blade. For the next 8 months we would meet there twice a month, and she'd keep me company while I forged. She was the first woman who didn't see the shop as competition, so I married her. She likes that I make her things and play her music, I just don't touch anything white or light colored. Smiths have working hands. Deal!

-Page
 
Oh BTW 220 grit sandpaper works great when they get too scaly and rough to keep them from cracking and bleeding. BigMacs and fries really cut grease.

-page
 
Ed Fowler said:
Just relax and enjoy it, or take up another hobby, like knitting.
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I'm with Ed, guys hands are supposed to be cracked and always with the appearance of being dirty. My dad has been an electrician forever and thats one of the memories that has stuck with me from childhood is his huge cracked, filled with dirt, hands.:D
 
You mean they are not supposed too look that way! :eek: I have been doing construction since I was 14 years old and until I got my back hurt they looked that way everyday! I have always done most of all my own mechanic work and repair for evrything I own. Just the way I was brought up!
Now that I am back building knives they get that way pretty often. The only thing I don gloves for is Pottasium Pergamate. That damn brown stain last for a long time. Don't ask! :jerkit:
I watched my father rub pure old vaseline into his hands practically every night of his working life. Keeps them from being so rough and eventually the dirt peels of. :D
 
Late every evening, wash one of your dogs with dish soap.Give him a GOOD scrubdown,helps fleas,smell,and hands.
Jerry
 
Blaine Chemical Company's pink lotion hand soap. Try it and you will throw everything else away. I'm serious. It's hard to believe how well it cleans until you use it.
 
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