For motorcycles I suggest actual motorcycle gloves that have a hard part at the base of the hand. If you go down you tend to put your hands down and break a little bone in there called the scaphoid, right where the base of the hand meets the wrist. It has no blood flow and takes forever to heal.
Tillman 864 Driver’s style gloves are my go to for most work. Nice cut deerskin. 24Cs for TIG welding and 750s for hot work. They’re all pretty well made and are affordable.
Searching vids for work gloves that could tell me the diff between the leathers and help me choose what will fit for my application beat. Your the first n only vid I found without discouraging the internet for hrs. Thanks a lot!!
Update: not sure if you ever got to doing it, but i recommended the maroon bell gloves and after a year I can say the gloves are amazing. They fit so well and the gloves are tough. One pair is officially my work glove. Jeremy the founder has great customer service. Cant recommend his company enough.
Revisiting this video and it is great! I've used deerskin for years as motorcycle and general work gloves around the house (I'm not in a physical labor job). What I didn't do was take care of them for the long term, but realized that they would last, wear, and patina like my boots and other leather gear. I've purchased from Sullivan and they are a good go to brand, but I'm trying to also support other small US leather companies.
as a tinbasher/hvac service tech i always buy deerskin gloves for the dexterity and warmth because the rubber handed gloves give you the most dexterity but in canada the winters get cold so i need warmth mixed with dexterity and it’s always a push pull battles
i use the hestra skullman, i think they are goat skin, not positive, but they are awesome. last time i ordered them i ordered 4 pairs to keep me in gloves for a while. as a desk jockey i only need them for household/chicken chores and the like.
Hey Carl, is it possible that you could provide links and product information of the clothing you are wearing in the thumbnail for this video? Also, would like to thank you for all of your informative videos you have been able to help me out tremendously. Keep up the great work and all the best to you!
Hey man! Some of these things are out of production like that Carhartt hat, but the jacket is the RJ2 from Freenote Cloth, the pants are the double knee chore pants from Taylor Stitch, and the Boots are Jim Green Razorback. I think I’m also wearing a Kato flannel underneath too… it’s been a while!
Schaeffers Elk skin gloves are my go to. I use them around the house as well as at work as a bomb tech. They are durable, fit great, and are at the right price point. As a bomb tech i am not just concerned about damage to my hand but static electricity. Leather gloves prevent that. Check them out
Not sure if you’ll read this, but I recently bought me a pair of Buffalo leather gloves from Maroon Bell, out in Colorado. They’re supposedly really good quality. I’ll try and update once I get them in. Maybe you could give them a look.
I debating between deer and elk, main reason I want them is for the warmth, but the protection I will not turn down. I do shopping carts so my hands get abused, but about 65-70% of my rough on the hands work is smooth surfaces. It’s really hard to justify 65$ gloves but maybe I need to reward my self with something as the cold season is comin quicker then we realize
Great review! Good information. I love leather work gloves. There is something about the way they age and take on wear. I had no idea about all of the different leather types. I Just bought a pair of Cow hide Geier. Whish I would have seen this before that purchase. Anyways Thanks!
Might be interesting if you could share your picks, top to bottom, for motorcycling. In my opinion, some people does not necessarily want to dress up like our fellow leather-clad dudes but also does not want to be seen like we’re gonna hit the track after lunch - we want that heritage look with a reasonable amount of safety on our hands.
I have been trying out many pairs of work gloves at work and writing up the good and bad about all of them, I'm up to about 10 different gloves already. Im happy you posted here, ill have to pick up some of yours and try them out. Im looking forward to it!
I use fairly generic pigskin, hardware store kind, for work around our land, light mechanical work, gardening, firewood cutting/splitting/shifting etc. Cheap, though not the cheapest. My philosophy is that you want the glove to wear out so your hands don't so long term durability isn't a major thing for me.
Fyi, you can hand wash any leather glove thin enough to dry overnight, not just buck or elk. Put them on, don't use any soap if you can help it, and if you have to use a soap, get one with a lot of fat and oils so it doesn't dry out the leather. Then wash with room temp water like you're washing your hands, take them off and squeeze them out (no wringing) and then roll them up in a towel and squeeze again, then set them in a cool dry place on a towel in front of a fan to dry as fast as possible. Put them on when they're still damp to make sure they haven't shrunk too much, then when they're dry, stretch them lengthwise on the edge of a table, first the palm/back of hand, then each finger. Over time leather will stretch along the width of our hands because of the way our hand moves, so stretching them lengthwise will bring them closer to their original shape. Then moisturize them with your favorite leather conditioner. I don't recommend doing this often, because each time you get any leather wet, it degrades slightly. Think of leather like beef jerky, it's dried "meat" and if it gets wet, should be kept cool and dried quickly to prevent bacteria and rot.
Not that you owe me anything but i am still a bit curious about what you thought about the gloves. I was really excited when i saw this video but felt a bit let down. Dose this glove company offer custom fit sizes? They look very high quality. I am the type that once i find something i like it’s hard for me to change. Keep up the great work!
Hey man, I feel like a jackass for not reaching out sooner. The Churchill gloves are made exceptionally well, but the fingers are way too long. Long enough that it becomes a problem when I'm trying to do anything tactile at all. I still need to break them out into a separate video, but after a long time trying to like them I just don't use them very much due to the fit.
Carl Murawski makes total sense. They were supposed to make yours a custom fit based off your hand trace sent in. If a glove fits poorly like that they are worthless lol. No way to actually use them. The gloves i ordered from them were made to my exact hand size and the difference was amazing. They must have miss understood what i wanted them to do for you. Thanks for clearing that up.
Nylon thread is junk nylon drys out. I don't wear gloves unless its hot work or chemicals. Any cheap leather glove can be great if you treat them with a boot oil and keep a few in rotation. I prefer Elk or Cow now one you missed is Hog. Hog is pretty darn tough.
I would not use deerskin gloves on a motorcycle. There's absolutely no abbression or slide protection. You fall and brace yourself - your wrists snap. You fall at speed and slide - the road turns into sandpaper, and those gloves are not gonna resist that, turning your hand-meat into beef pattys.
Hey dude how do u think the deer skins would hold up for me, as a pipefitter. I wanna give this brand a try. Let me know your recommendation please. Thanks!
I have a pair of the buffalo ropers...I can say that I'm not very impressed. It's the first glove I've ever had to give me blisters due to the excess material on the inside. It didn't get much better after 20 hours of wear. The gloves are also slicker than snot.
Hello there, is there any way to contact you? I have a question for you about IBEW. I know you are a channel for clothes, but I'm just getting ready to take my test for the apprenticeship school here in Washington DC. Local 26. My father retired from there after 40 years... I'm Old (36) to be an apprentice, but I miss being able to have something to show for the work I do.
I'm a gold Smith not a woodchopper.. and I mess up gloves in days. It's sad actually cuz if you do it with your hands like the real men youll end up full of cuts.. not deep cuts but like hundreds of cat scratches
Dear skin is no good for motorbike , if you go down the road they will wear away like paper. Like rough sandpaper at whatever speed! It is a no no! Any leather needs oils and balms to keep them supple. But a balm on buffalo leather and it will soften up nicely! But still keeps it's strength. The way they are stitched makes a big difference!
Leather gloves are not good most work an electrician does for the most part. Really leather is good for pulling wire and that's about it. Working with 1/4 nuts and bolts they aren't good for even 3/8 is tough. Making up lighting, outlets ect leather gloves are awful for. Really most trades, Sheet metal, Carpenters, Plumbers, ect leather are not good for most tasks done. Besides laborers you hardly ever see anyone on a jobsite with leather gloves. $50 to $100 for work gloves just seems insane also. No matter the quality of the leather if you wear and work in them often they will wear out in a few months.
Didnt even think of it that my gloves were deerskin gloves until i saw this video But damn theyre good Anyways i put some gromits in them so i can hang them by a carabiner in my pants to prevent them from getting lost
Go to national welders, I buy my rod busting gloves with reinforced finger for less than five bucks a pair. If it's cold, stop and get a pair of cotton gloves for a buck at circle k. Otherwise just grow a pair and get some callouses.
I am having trouble finding gloves that last, i have been buying the toughest gloves i can find and they don't last 2 days at my work. I need the toughest of the tough. I grab and stack rough cut lumber all day.
Can you make gloves out of politicians? They're super soft, yet their hide is so thick that it would be near on indestructible. It would also be cheap.
