[TheForge] gloves

[James Davis]

one thing that was pointed out to me a couple years back was that when you use leather gloves your hand tends to sweat and when you add the heat from being close to your work it turns to steam inside the glove ...kind-a cooks your hand! so its better to use a cotton glove to let the moisture out


Jim Davis
 
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> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:22:46 -0500
> From: mlforge at cebridge.net
> To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] gloves
> 
> have some kevlar gloves good for 875 degrees, fits either hand long cuff, $14 a pair or 2 pair for $25 plus shipping. A little more bulky than the standard hot mill kevlar found at blacksmith supply sites
> --
> Maple Leaf Forge
> Ralph Neumeister
> 17231 Messenger Rd
> Auburn Twp., Oh 44023
> 
> ---- Mike Spencer <mspencer at tallships.ca> 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 .~. 
> /V\ 
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> 
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