Gloves?

Hi Everyone, Going back to a posting of 14th January about burning fingers and wearing gloves. I have rarely heard about any more dangerous practice than working on a lathe with something that could rip your fingers off in the blink of an eye. Picture the scene when you get a catch, and it happens to all of us once in a while. Your hand jumps on the rest and the glove just touches the work, maybe trapping between the rest and the revolving work or a sharp outside edge hooks the cuff. Hey presto! If you are really lucky the glove will tear, but more likely a finger or two will be amputated. Sensible? Let's have a poll to find out how many turners use gloves and ask who has had a close encounter and learned a valuable lesson. Charlie

Oxon woodturners UK

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Charlie Jones
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I truly believe that gloves and a lathe (and lots of other power tools) don't go together.

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Phisherman

For me, gloves and shops don't mesh.

On jobsites, I have used fingerless gloves, though.

Ed

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Ed Edelenbos

Reply to
walnutlvr

I often use a fingerless glove, especially when roughing dry wood. Some of the angles that I need to place my hands in relationship to the gouge to get the cut will beat my hands (pinky side) to pieces. It hurts. The only way I know to stop the pain is to ware a glove.

Go to the following website and observe the first photo at the top of the page. Look closely at the hand that is closest to the tool rest (David's right hand). He uses it on in his videos and in real life also (I saw it with my own eyes).

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Ted

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Ted

I am not an experienced woodworker or turner. I do tend to wear gloves but use mechanics gloves that you find at an automotive parts store. These are thin leather with velcro cuffs. I use them in woodworking mainly to protect against splinters and to provide just a bit of cushioning. When turning I wear them to cover my hands and provide cushioning. I wear them with a turners smock with elastic cuffs.

Reply to
Russ Stanton

I use a work glove on my left hand only. Protects my hand from splinters, hot chips, sharp flute edges. I have to ask how a catch will pull a glove between the rest and the piece as normally my glove is behind the tool rest and far enough away so it couldn't happen. I usually run my index finger along and behind the rest as a guide so there is always protection. My thumb is on top of the tool but still behind the rest. Anyone who uses a tool with their fingers placed between the rest and the wood is asking for trouble, gloves or not.

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pdhyde42

I once saw a guy get his hand rapped up on a drill press with a glove.He was one of the most lucky guys i have ever seen ,he only got road rash & burns. Oh ya ,he was fired for not following shop safety rules. I once got my T shirt ripped off of my body by a wire wheel on a bench grinder.I still have the scare from the wheel when it slammed me on the work bench. I now study what can go wrong before I do anything in the shop. I've learned to stand off center of the table saw after receiving a huge kick back from an oak 2x2.

Jerry

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Jerry - OHIO

"Jerry - OHIO" wrote: (clip) I once got my T shirt ripped off of my body by a wire wheel on a bench

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I heard about, but didn't see, a machinist walk past a lathe that had a piece of round stock protruding through the spindle into the aisle. A burr caught his shop coat, twisted the fabric and he sent several seconds rotating and flopping. Must have seemed like an hour.

On a point closely related to gloves, I hope you all know that when you do power polishing on the lathe, NEVER wrap the rag around your fingers.

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Leo Lichtman

Fingerless leather glove on left hand. Left hand stays on the right side of tool rest :) Have never had a problem with putting my hand where it should not be but my head is another thing. Came close on a number of occasions when I went nearer to look at a piece without turning off the lathe. Needless to say if I don`t get out of this habit, it`s gonna hurt.

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Boru

My blood still grows cold when I remember: Was some time ago (about 70 years) when us kids were wondering why the largest of the local saw mills had the whistle "tied down" and blew until there was no more steam. The singing of the three story high band saws slowed to a stop........ then workers by the dozen came slowly out, carrying their lunch buckets, but with their heads hung low. It seems "Charlie" (not his real name) who lived a couple of doors down the street from me, had violated company and union rules by fastening the wrist strap on his leather work gloves. He was working on a sled, carrying rough logs through a band saw sawing the log into cants (I think they called them?). "Charlie's" glove caught on the rough log, and "Charlie" rode the log right through the saw. Halved, right down the middle. Mill didn't build up steam until the following week. Dad gathered up his gloves with wrist straps, and cut off the straps.

I'm a real greenhorn woodturner, but old enough to be smart. BUT a few days ago I touched a rag on a spinning work piece, and in one quick thump it was tightly wrapped around the work and jammed against the tool rest. I WAS smart enough, however, to shut the lathe off before the drive belt started smoking.

Old Chief Lynn

Reply to
Lynn

Nope. Doesn't work that way.

A properly fitted leather glove poses no particular hazard. If you want to rail against gloves, I shall consider that the only way the dire event you specify even might happen would be if the glove in question had excess material flopping about, which mine do not. It also assumes that you are applying pressure in such a fashion that you'd stuff your hand into the work - which also doesn't happen here. I've been at this for 25 years, and my hand has NEVER jumped over the rest, glove or no glove. If it did, I might get a finger caught between the work and the toolrest, and "hey presto!" an amputated or severely abused finger - no glove required!

I would be delighted to see Mr. Jones turning with no gloves in the shed I started turning in, where it was often below zero in the quaint Farenheit system. The spray of frozen shavings form green wood is quite cooling under those conditions...

Dire, but quite unrelated to turning. Anything that cuts wood, cuts flesh.

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Ecnerwal

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