[TheForge] gloves

[peter fels]

Hot mill gloves have lots of cotton layers and work pretty well,but not much dexterity.
Like yr hack Mike.
The argument against kelvlar or nomex gloves is that they do melt and get really nasty when they do.
Leather shrinks when it gets hot enough and that makes it hard to get rid of fast.
Anyone know about that carbon-x stuff?
I seldom wear gloves forging..and then only on the left.

On Mar 31, 2011, at 10:53 AM, Mike Spencer wrote:

> 
> I wear an unlined, gauntleted all-leather glove on my left -- holding
> -- hand nearly all the time at the forge.  Y'all know all the reasons,
> whether you agree with them or not.  But here's another little glove
> bit:
> 
> Doing hot detailing, such as a gargoyle face on the end of a 2" round,
> I have a couple of dozen punches, chisels, fullers etc.  Some of them
> are kinda short.  Held, palm up, between thumb and forefinger with the
> struck end over the palm of the hand, your knuckles don't get in the
> way of seeing what you're doing.  But it puts the knuckle and proximal
> phalanx of the forefinger so close to the workpiece that I've raised a
> blister right through a heavy leather glove, just from the radiant
> heat.
> 
> So I cut out some strips of 1/2"-thick ceramic batt, the stuff you
> line gas forges with, put them over the affected part of an old
> leather glove, and contact-cemented a cover of garment leather over
> the bits of batt.  Makes a glove stiff, clunky and useless for
> anything else but now I can hold those little hot-chasing (is that an
> approved term?  :-) tools right up there close to a gargoyle's
> red-hot nose.  The leather may char a bit but no more blisters on my
> forefinger.
> 
> I know there are gloves -- someone just mentioned them -- that allow
> you to directly hold very hot stuff and they'd probably be better but
> I haven't seen them (except at an ABANA con umpty years ago, where
> they were very dear.)  My little glove hack works well enough for it's
> single purpose.
> 
> - Mike
> 
> -- 
> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~. 
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