[TheForge] gloves

[David Childress]

Those Kelvar groves are used in industry to prevent cuts and they will
melt and are the worst kind of trouble when they do.  They resolidify
and are very hard to remove from cooked flesh.  Most smiths I know use
just one glove on their off hand.  The glove just lets them know that
they are about to be burned before they are cooked, it is kind of like
a fuse.  The glove may be trash but it saves on the burn cream.

I steer clean of the Kelvar and use leather driving gloves except when
I have to have dexterity then I use welding gloves or cotton heat
resistant gloves.

The important thing is you do not want to deal with melted Kelvar.  It
takes a lot of heat to melt, but you get back up close and personal
when it starts to flow the other way.

Dave Childress

On 3/31/11, Grover.Richardson at gtri.gatech.edu
<Grover.Richardson at gtri.gatech.edu> wrote:
> I wear a glove on the holding hand.  Even if the piece is long and cold.
> Main reason is that the glove shields me from some of the piece vibration
> when I hit it.  I don't put one on my hammer hand because I have better
> control.
>
> I do use both gloves when doing twists.  One hand winds up under the twist
> and hot scale WILL fall into the cup of the open hand below<G>.
>
> All the best
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Cindy and James
> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 12:40 PM
> To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [TheForge] gloves
>
> On the rare occasion that I do wear gloves while forging, it is normally
> on my left hand not my hammer hand.  And it is normally a KEVLAR glove.
> I use them when the object is too hot (and short) to hold bare handed
> but long enough to be handled without tongs if the glove is used.
>
> For those of you unfamiliar with them, it is the stuff body armor is
> made from.  These are knit gloves and will allow you to comfortably hold
> something in the 500 degree F range.  You can feel the heat immediately
> thru the glove and if it is too hot, you can turn loose.  The glove does
> not hold heat.  They are not for welding as they do not prevent sparks
> at all and allow them to pass thru the glove.
>
> I have heard these gloves are good for preventing CUTS, but I haven't
> tried that.
>
> The gloves are cheap, usually $2 to 5 per pair and last a long time,
> usually 1 size fits none (they stretch).  Leather gloves at the forge
> are a NO- NO!
>
> James
> Paris, TX
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