new guy question about using gloves

[hammerkid]

i wear a welding glove on my tong hand (the left hand) . I learned from error not to wear a glove on your hammer hand.

[buddy215216]

i have only been blacksmithing for a few days(lol my forge took a while to make)but i don't use gloves seems to me its safer but if you want to use them go ahead

[Bentiron1946]

I have never used gloves for forging but afterwards yes. I use them when grinding and picking up any steel laying around the anvil or welding table until I determine weather it is hot or cold. I always consider it hot until proved otherwise. When pouring bronze I always wear gloves. When I first started I got burned a few time, well more then a few, by picking up stuff around the place after grinding, welding or cutting off so after forging that's when the gloves came on. Slow learner at first I guess.

[ironrosefarms]

Prior to my motorcycle wreck I never wore gloves, now that I am getting back to the forge I have found that the injuries to my hands have also made them a bit over sensitive. So I now keep a pair of gloves near by just in case. The only time I have ever worn a glove on my hammer hand was just a few weeks ago. After 7 hours of hammering (after not hammering for 2 years) I wore a very large blister... I put on the glove for the last 30 minutes to finish up...

James