Blade safety gloves

[RedMist]

Just wondering if anyone can recommend any good safety gloves to give me a bit of protection from my table saw blade. I'm taking all other safety precautions but am thinking a pair of reinforced gloves wouldn't do me any harm and might do me some good.

I know nothing would protect me if i place my hand on the spinning blade, just thinking though if something slipped and my hand somehow grazed the blade....!

(would rather be oversafe than undersafe)

 

[davem62]

Don't wear any gloves using machinery, the blade will drag your hand in with a glove on, if it's just skin you wil be able to pull away

 

[PAC1]

I bought some Kevlar gloves for wearing whilst carving. I could not find any real recommendation so just went with a brand version. So far they have acted as a deterrent so I do not know if they work. They are a type of wool knit so I am slightly concerned they will not stop a pointy blade but they have leather pads which hopefully will work. As others have said they are not suitable for use with spinny machines or spinny wood.

 

[Amicus]

I unfortunately touched the spinning saw blade with my thumb a week ago. I was very lucky, as non of the internals was nicked, only a somewhat deep flesh wound resultat from that incident.

My thumb is in bandage now for the next 3 weeks. Had I worn gloves, chances are that my thumb would be missing now

So I too urge you to not wear any gloves near spinning blades at all.

 

[mbartlett99]

I use dyneema glass handling gloves (https://www.justworkgloves.co.uk/Cut-Re ... 300-Gloves) - they're very thin & stretchy with a rubberised palm. I also use these at work (marine engineer). I don't find any loss of feel with these. They fit very tightly.

Using gloves that don't, err well fit like a glove might be a little risky perhaps - like any piece off PPE it has to fit you correctly and be appropriate for the task at hand. A generic workglove I would suggest might be a mistake - I use 5 different gloves from 600V elbow length ones to nitrile disposables depending on the hazard.

Having said that I don't regard this as protection from a table saw blade in any form. Perhaps from a planer blade tickling an errant finger tip but not much else. Where I do think they're great is;
1) preventing cuts/splinters from handling the work piece - think sharp edges of mfc etc
2) preventing slips when workholding - they do give a lot of extra grip say on nice slippery freshly planed wood.

I read a lot of accident reports (as Chief Eng I have to do all the HS for my department) and have yet to come across an incident where a glove exacerbated an incident but that is not to imply it's impossible or has not happened.

 

[RedMist]

Hmm, from the advice here and on other pages on this forum I've since found, it seems no gloves is the way to go. Better to lose a finger and have 9 remaining than have them all dragged into the spinning blade of destruction!

thanks all

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

There is a reason you cant buy "gloves" to protect you against spinning blades!

 

[sunnybob]

Way back in the very early 60's I was taught to wear NOTHING on my hands. Not even rings. No bracelets or even neck ties whenever i entered the machine shop. Even flappy shirt sleeves got you a mouthful of old anglo saxon.
Then in the 70's boys with long hair came along, but they didnt get to do anything more interesting than sweeping the floors.