Good Forging Gloves

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John Hoe Handle

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Can you guys recommend some good forging gloves? I tried my welding gloves but too much. Tried some typical leather gardening gloves, and not enough.
 
I usually never wear gloves forging, if something is too hot I use tongs.
If I was going to though, it would probably be a pair of Tig welding gloves. They are you favorite for general fabrication work
 
So, I was forging hammers the other day at a hammer in. Using a coal forge. You use a lot of coal in hammer. The heavy 3lb piece kept sinking, due to three of us where dropping our steel in there. So, you would have to fish thru the hot coke, to find your metal. It would get so hot, you could only root in there for a few seconds.

But I understood the instructors reasoning for having three man teams. One would be air cranking, then the other two would work on drifting the hole and sledging the peen, etc. Then put yours back in, and another two guys would work, and trade off.
 
I only do stock removal not forging, but I do work in injection molding. And at work I wear North Safety Grip gloves.
They are a knit material, a little bulky, but not has hard to move your fingers in as crispy leather welding gloves. I think they are rated at 400 degrees. I've picked up small pieces of 500 degree metal and can hang on to it for a short amount of time.
I'm not sure how well they would work for you, but my guess is better than welding gloves.

Another brand of high heat gloves is Dragon something, I've never used those, but a search might give you something useful.
 
I've always used an Ove Glove for my tongs hand (support hand) and it's worked for me. Helps when you're rooting around with your piece at the forge opening. Also helps with the flying scale that always somehow tends to find the web of your hand. They're only rated at 400° but that's plenty as long as you're not holding your hand there for an extend period of time (or picking up glowing pieces ). There's a brand called Grillaholics Grill Gloves that look like they have a higher rating.
 
I get the old cheap split leather work gloves. There's a salvage place around here and I can get them for in 12 pair bundles for 12$. I normally burn them up or tear them up quickly, so the cheap ones are what I use. They are loose enough even with my big hands to sling off if they get hot or scale gets down the cuff.
 
I saw on jantz that they had high temp gloves that were rated at 2000 degrees. Not sure how comfortable they are, but sound nice. If I remember right they were kind of expensive, about $80
 
I use a variety of gloves in forging. My hammer hand (right) has a stage workers glove, which is a half finger glove pretty much the same as a baseball glove. I save the left gloves for giving away to lefties. On my left hand I wear a good grade leather work glove. I keep the rights because sometimes you are doing things that need two hands. I have a pair of HT gloves I wear doing HT. They resist the heat and insulate my hands for straightening a warp. I also have a pair of Ov-Gloves. They re good for some projects where you get close and personal with hot steel.
 
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