JHCC

And you are in your 5 arm aspect, today?

Divali was yesterday Bunkie.

Regards,

SLAG.

That would be omnidextrous.

Don't mess with me, man: I'm a classicist!

Steering wheel on the left side is correct. Steering wheel on the right side is not. Steering wheel on both...

I used to work with a guy who was ambidextrous, he couldn't do anything with either hand.

Frosty The Lucky.

That would be ambiclumsy ...

5 hours ago, JHCC said:

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous. 

4 hours ago, Marc1 said:

That would be ambiclumsy ...

Or ambisinister. 

I'm confused!

Gloves I have some with me all the time mostly from HF and have cut bandaid purchases by 90%.  Problem is when I was looking for a pair this week I found 4 right gloves no lefts so I wore one backwards and my wife started giving me stranger looks than normal.  Blacksmithing I don't generally wear them other than handling the steel in or out of the shop. 

Bare-handed & tongs.  Slack tub to cool things a bit, but no gloves, (or boots except in winter).  Steel shop & lime rock gravel floor is too blasted hot.  My slack tub has a hose trickling all the time for the dogs, horse, pig, so I can just step in when I get over-heated.

I use a heat shield when I'm welding at work; alum fries gloves faster than you can go fetch more. 

c-1, its about time u know that anyone who is not right handed is wrong handed.

8 hours ago, JHCC said:

Or ambisinister. 

Sure, and interesting how the word for left in Latin (and Italian) become synonym for evil/bad/scary. 

Just like in politics ... ha ha

 

Back to gloves, I hope no one associates the use of gloves with weakness and no gloves with being tough. 

No shoes? No comment ...

3 hours ago, Tubalcain2 said:

c-1, its about time u know that anyone who is not right handed is wrong handed.

Tc2, it's about time that u know that I know that u stole that joke from Hickok 45!

I have had really good luck with "Big Jake" gloves.  Not cheap but not that expensive.  The backs are fairly heavy cotton the stitching is kevlar and they "fling off"  pretty well.  They are thin enough not to affect dexterity but thick enough that they last and give a little cushion to your hand.  I find I can get a couple of weeks out of them.  Typical safety supply work gloves I get a couple of days out of, Harbour Freight type gloves I might get a day.

Most of my forging is done on the power hammer or press so I typically wear gloves on both hands but I usually fling off the right one when I pick up a hand hammer.

I BORROWED it, C-1. not stole, borrowed. besides, who care were it came from if its TRUE.

I've always used Tillman gloves. I only wear it on my tong hand so I'm able to punch/slit/drift without my hand getting burned. Now if only I could find a right hander using the same pair.....

I never wear a right hand glove. Don't like the feel of the hammer through a glove. I had a bunch of good unused right hand gloves until I found a place that sold 'lefties'. Now I just buy a pair of left hand welding gloves for the same price as a normal pair.

On 11/1/2016 at 7:57 PM, seldom (dick renker) said:

c-1 lets face it, "all good people are left handed".

the good lord made a few good people the rest are all right handed 

 

Cheap HF work gloves and cut the cuff off.  That way the cuff does not get snagged and lock onto the wrist. The glove is gone before they can write the memo.  That said there are times that the cuff is needed and for those times the cuff is left on the glove.

Also sometimes the cuffs can act as "funnels" for items you DON'T want to share the interior of the glove with!    (Good idea to store them in a sealed container if you are in an area where arachnids like to hide in them!)

For the past year and a half I've been using some hobart welding gloves with the short velcro cuff similar to mechanics gloves. They are full leather, durable and pretty comfortable. I'm not a fan of the long cuffs unless they are more sensible for safety aspects like picking up wild critters, or where there is a lot more radiant heat or such. 

daswulf I use Watson welding gloves they go half way to your elbow and come of easy as well as being decent cow hide

4 hours ago, M.J.Lampert said:

the good lord made a few good people the rest are all right handed 

Oh MY aren't we the offhanded humorist! 

Thank you for the straight line. 

Frosty The Lucky.

I found that rather sinister myself! (Said Tom punting that dexterously!)

5 hours ago, ThomasPowers said:

area where arachnids like to hide in them!)

Or as in our case the mice like to eat them.

5 hours ago, M.J.Lampert said:

I use Watson welding gloves they go half way to your elbow

For handling critters or working?