[TheForge] Re: Protective gear

[Steve Smith]

The gloves I like and I think Mike is referring to are Kevlar hot mill 
gloves. They make them out of cotton a lot cheaper, but the Kevlar lasts 
a very long time; cotton you can replace pretty frequently. I get them here:

http://www.carolinaglove.com/olc/12154001/kevlar.htm
style: KVA65285 (just the style I like, others work too)

Steve Smith


Mike Spencer wrote:

> zOh, yeah.  The hot-carving glove.  A couple of times I blistered my
> hand right through a heavy leather glove when holding various chisels,
> punches etc. close to 2" dia. that I was hot carving.  I saw some
> light-weight gloves at the ABANA conference in '82 that you were
> supposed to be able to hold red-hot iron with.  Couldn't afford them
> then and a few years later I couldn't find anybody who had ever heard
> of them.
> 
> So recently I took an old left-hand gauntlet glove and applied about
> 1/2" or 3/4" of ceramic fiber batt over the area where I was getting
> burned, covered it with some soft garment leather contact-cemented down
> around the edge.  Looks clunky, works great.  Did up a little gargoyle
> head on the end of 1-1/2"  and never felt the heat. Single-purpose
> item though.
> 
> - Mike
>