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Turning with Gloves On
Mark Sanger:
How about needing gloves for those cold days when out with the bow saw or when chainsawing stock for turning, as wooly gloves are too slippy and not safe.
Or how about the times lifting heavy logs that have course bark.
Or those cold days when partaking in machine maintenance but you need to keep a few fingers free for fiddling with small parts.
There are quite a few times gloves are needed in the preparation, cleaning and clearing for woodturning other than turning itself.
Mark Sanger:
--- Quote from: john taylor on November 07, 2013, 06:29:34 PM ---You mean like this Mark, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unmYI5ruEeY I am not endorsing this behaviour and strongly advise against it.
john
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Now that is just plain daft. Thanks for showing how stupid people really can be.
Richard Findley:
I've been resisting joining in on this one as I often get myself on trouble!
Let's look at the facts:
It is bad practice to wear gloves while using woodworking machinery.
I'd say for 99% of the time there is no reason to, and certainly a beginner should not be wearing them.
However, I have occasionally worn gloves for turning. If you have ever made a batch of 8" diameter laminated oak table legs you will know that, without gloves, both hands will end up lacerated and full of splinters. I'd imagine the same is the case if roughing a large amount of large bowls and/or logs.
When wearing gloves I am fully aware of the potential dangers, and take the calculated risk of wearing them rather than suffering with painful hands for the next few days.
I would just emphasise that I would not recommend or teach the wearing of gloves to the inexperienced but feel comfortable taking the measures risk myself when needed - which is not very often I must say!
Richard
Mark Hancock:
--- Quote from: Richard Findley on November 08, 2013, 12:14:37 PM ---I've been resisting joining in on this one as I often get myself on trouble!
Let's look at the facts:
It is bad practice to wear gloves while using woodworking machinery.
I'd say for 99% of the time there is no reason to, and certainly a beginner should not be wearing them.
However, I have occasionally worn gloves for turning. If you have ever made a batch of 8" diameter laminated oak table legs you will know that, without gloves, both hands will end up lacerated and full of splinters. I'd imagine the same is the case if roughing a large amount of large bowls and/or logs.
When wearing gloves I am fully aware of the potential dangers, and take the calculated risk of wearing them rather than suffering with painful hands for the next few days.
I would just emphasise that I would not recommend or teach the wearing of gloves to the inexperienced but feel comfortable taking the measures risk myself when needed - which is not very often I must say!
Richard
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Couldn't agree more.
As a woodturner you should be continually assessing the risk and take the appropriate action to reduce the potential danger.
I would suggest that danger of entanglement with a glove is less than the physical injury to a hand caused by flying splinters.
If you took these risk arguments to their extreme you would never switch a lathe on - revolving timber at high speed and no guard? This situation happened at one of the NEC shows. The H&S people came round prior to the show opening and asked for guards to be fitted to all the lathes. ::)
Mark Sanger:
--- Quote from: Mark Hancock on November 08, 2013, 12:40:34 PM ---
--- Quote from: Richard Findley on November 08, 2013, 12:14:37 PM ---I've been resisting joining in on this one as I often get myself on trouble!
Let's look at the facts:
It is bad practice to wear gloves while using woodworking machinery.
I'd say for 99% of the time there is no reason to, and certainly a beginner should not be wearing them.
However, I have occasionally worn gloves for turning. If you have ever made a batch of 8" diameter laminated oak table legs you will know that, without gloves, both hands will end up lacerated and full of splinters. I'd imagine the same is the case if roughing a large amount of large bowls and/or logs.
When wearing gloves I am fully aware of the potential dangers, and take the calculated risk of wearing them rather than suffering with painful hands for the next few days.
I would just emphasise that I would not recommend or teach the wearing of gloves to the inexperienced but feel comfortable taking the measures risk myself when needed - which is not very often I must say!
Richard
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Couldn't agree more.
As a woodturner you should be continually assessing the risk and take the appropriate action to reduce the potential danger.
I would suggest that danger of entanglement with a glove is less than the physical injury to a hand caused by flying splinters.
If you took these risk arguments to their extreme you would never switch a lathe on - revolving timber at high speed and no guard? This situation happened at one of the NEC shows. The H&S people came round prior to the show opening and asked for guards to be fitted to all the lathes. ::)
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Yes, lathes without guards at shows is common and demo's, but if you use one which I often do, you then have to put red tape everywhere to stop people walking behind them. Even then I have found someone behind me looking through my tool box.
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