Gloves with Kevlar for woodwork

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What gloves would you recommend for use with a bandsaw (a big big one)

I have seen Screwfix selling £4.99 Kevlar gloves ("can be used as glove liners") and others at £6-ish with slightly thicker Kevlar material and a latex palm.

And then I saw these.

http://www.toolpost.co.uk/pages/Health___Safety/Protection/protection.html

But would they be too thick to use for bandsawing?

What do you think?
What would are your recommendations?

thanks
 
You're absolutely right, especially with a band saw,

but just like seat belts etc, I figure if the gloves fit well, and made of Kevlar, they may be a useful safety stop - hopefully stop a nick becoming anything worse?
 
The disadvantage of using gloves with any moving machinery is the glove being snagged and pulling operator further into moving parts, better to lose a finger than an arm !
 
Yes, good point I hadn't thought of.

Would that apply to a bandsaw do you think, where the blade just goes down a small hole?

I can see on a lathe it could be quite nasty.
 
James, you don't want to argue with ANY circulating, rotating, upping & downing, sidewinding, stamping, perforating or cutting machinery - you'll lose something.
 
I would say that tight fitting gloves are unlikely to cause any difficulty when operating a band saw correctly, they will not do much good either. One exception being if you were working with exceptionally rough, heavy or sharp materials. I would never use them as a matter of routine and (as already pointed out) an accident on a powerful machine could be made worse.
 
So, summing up:

No gloves with machines as you could lose feel of what you are handling and make an accident worse.

Kevlar gloves only good for handling sharp materials.

Thanks
 
I doubt whether gloves of any sort will give you protection from a bandsaw - basically if your fingers are getting that close then you are going to get hurt. Safe working techniques (e.g. use of push sticks etc.) should keep your hands out of the danger zone.
Having said that I often wear builders latex-dipped gloves or those criss-cross gripper gloves when working at the planer, saw or router table. I find that the extra 'grippiness' enables me to apply feed pressure to the stock with less exertion. I feel that this lets me work in a safer way. I've heard the arguments about gloves being snagged and pulled in to a machine, but am not convinced. Nearly all industrial 'accidents' have an avoidable cause. Blades don't jump out and bite you, but guards get left off, people get careless or distracted, or take short cuts. Unfortunately the safe way to do things usually takes a bit more time and effort, but if you value your fingers that's time well spent.
 
When I did my 5 year apprenticeship as a tool maker. The safe way to dress was:-
Short sleeved overalls.
No rings.
No ties.
No pig tail.
No jewelry of any kind.
Keep your hands away saw blades, hold the work piece in a vice, or use sacrificial timber with a notch for pushing. Much better to screw up the job than lose a finger. It is much quicker and cheaper to make a new work piece than trying to replace your body parts.
 
And as previously stated No gloves they will suck your

fingers/arm into the blade /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Ex Butcher still with all fingers Joe
 
Don't use gloves when working with bandsaws as mentioned earlier. A big bandsaw - 4" blade & larger does not need to be moving at a working speed to cut a finger off. Many years ago I used to work for a company that made bandsaws driven from a tractor PTO. One of our staff lost a finger when making adjustments and someone else jumped onto the tractor and tried to start the engine. The engine only cranked over as we had a 'Stop' cable rigged to the stop control on the tractor. It still easily removed the finger...... We changed our operating procedure afterwards.
 
NO LOOSE CLOTHING either .. So no tie .. etc .. Had a chap at college caught his sleave in a lathe chuck as it was slowing .. Bit of a mess .. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
 
Years ago I knew a guy who lost most of his hand in a band saw. The guy who supplied timber to our school fell onto his circular saw. He survived, but I don't think he was able to work again.

I remember working on a big, pre war, calculator. (Yep, they used to have motors and gears). The gear chain decided to climb up my tie. Could not turn the machine off so had to leg it over the counter, complete with machine, to switch it off.

I think that was at the Cambourne School of Mining.

Philip
 
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