Injury Warning!!!

[crokett]

I've tried the fingerless gloves and still gotten splinters so I decided to live with it being tougher to pick up nails and screws while wearing gloves. The gloves also protect me from skinned knuckles, hammer hits, etc.

[cabinetman]

As for handling large stock and plywood, would fingerless gloves do the trick C-man? Most of the weight rests in the palm area when moving ply, so, I would think these would be useful. Anyone care to chime in?

I don't wear gloves. The fingers are just as vulnerable as the palms.
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[Hellrazor]

Wearing gloves can be dangerous when running power tools. I have a pair of skin tight mechanics gloves I use since nothing is loose fitting or can get snagged.

[crokett]

Wearing gloves can be dangerous when running power tools. I have a pair of skin tight mechanics gloves I use since nothing is loose fitting or can get snagged.

True. I wear the tighter fitting construction gloves, not the loose leather gardening-type ones, and I only wear mine when I am doing general construction and using a circular saw, sawzall, etc.

[cabinetman]

LOML says my hands feel like leather.
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[chopnhack]

I guess you don't need gloves then C-Man ;P

[shoottx]

The other "hazard" is really sharp edges just slicing your hands.

This has happened twice in the last month. I was working with some very hard white oak, ran one edge on the Joiner, then thickness planed the board, when I slide my hand down to pick up the board the edge cut just like a sharp knife. While the cut was superficial, it still hurt and I dripped blood on the board!

So watch those edges!

[Rand]

My dad used to fix watches for a hobby and for money to feed his gun habit. Remember when you had to wind the things up?

After he died we sold most of the watch stuff but I kept several sets of tweezers that look like this:
http://www.folica.com/Tweezerman_Ingr_d1653.html

With the sharp tweezers and a magnifying lens I can remove even the tiny annoying splinters that LOML gets in the garden with a minimum of skin damage. If you don't have that style of tweezer I highly recommend getting them.