MiniMax MM16 bandsaw cutting near max capacity 

Darn impressive! Now I want a minimax.

defenitly drooling for that 20 inch mm beauty..

Forgot to answer your question: TPI doesn't necessarily determine tooth size. I WOULD agree that 3 TPI is "rather large" SPACING. The two blades I use most are 3 TPI carbide-tipped for cutting green wood, and 1 TPI carbide-tipped for cutting exotics. Don't really see how that informs the discussion, but there it is...

If you're running a large tooth blade with wide spacing, the most you will get "pulled in" is the depth of the tooth, though it will likely do the same exact thing to your skin if you were bare-handed. (a blade traveling @3000fpm or more is going too fast for you to react to until it's too late, gloves or not) If you use your head and don't get your hand near the blade, you won't have issues anyway.

@listentoWyntMarsalis 3/5 - into the blade a few inches off the table. The glove will be slammed down into the table where it will either sit there as the blade passes through it, or (more likely) it will jam the blade entirely. The glove and carrot will definitely not be sucked into the tiny clearance around the blade. In the situation shown in the video, the OP was NOT WRONG to wear gloves. They MIGHT provide some protection from the cutting action of the blade until his natural reflexes

@listentoWyntMarsalis 1/5 - First, I'm not "playing." I'm trying to correct a mistake regarding commonly accepted workshop safety practice. If you try to take a fresh look at the subject, I'll try to explain it better. You are not the first to mistakenly expand the "No Gloves Around Tools That Rotate" rule into "No Gloves Around Any Tools." Consider a Miter Saw (since I personally witnessed this accident). A contractor was using a sliding compound miter saw and wearing gloves. His right hand

@listentoWyntMarsalis I've found with the band-saw, the only time I accidentally hit it, it just gave a little fff sound and sliced clean through, luckily it nipped the part in front of my finger, and it gave me warning to where I was not watching my right ring finger.

I don't know what kind of gloves you wear, but I wear gloves in my shop every single day (I turn wood for a living) and have never had an issue. However, I have had a 3" shard of oak (huge splinter) removed from my wrist/palm in the ER after a little kick-back on the table-saw. Had I been wearing gloves, I might not have visited the ER that night, and I doubt I would have had a chunk of wood driven 3" into my arm. But to each their own...

@listentoWyntMarsalis So close. The caution is not to wear gloves around power tools with business ends that ROTATE. Like table saws, miter saws, lathes,etc. Those will grab gloves, shirt sleeves, rags, or long hair, and pull in and mutilate quicker than the operator can react. BUT, in this instance, the OP is perfectly fine wearing gloves. A bandsaw's action is not the same. It might grab the glove, but it CANNOT pull your hand through the tiny opening on the table. Neither can a scroll saw.

@listentoWyntMarsalis 2/5 - glove contacted the ROTATING blade, got caught, and the ROTATING blade pulled his gloved hand further in, cutting it in half down to the wrist before he could react. Now consider a Band Saw. If you wear gloves and a finger tip makes contact with the blade, the motion would pull your finger DOWNWARDS. It would NOT pull your finger FURTHER INTO the blade. If you don't believe it, try it. Take a carrot and put it into a finger of a leather glove. Move the gloved finger

yeah, what kind of blade? Ive got a 24" powermatic and it isnt nearly that calm Regards, Ron.

@listentoWyntMarsalis 4/5 - withdrew his hand from the PASSING blade. Do you understand the difference between a piece of fabric being instantly wrapped around an object rotating at thousands of RPMs, so that you CAN'T remove your hand before it is sucked in and maimed; and a piece of fabric contacting a PASSING blade that DOES NOT "suck it in"? Here's the thing: when talking about NON-ROTATING tools, each tool has its own trade-off of pros/cons regarding different safety gear. You have

@listentoWyntMarsalis I just re-read your reply 2 my 1st post & realized how condescending your tone was. I hope my reply came across as more civil (& helpful). But I can't resist tossing your own words back (spelling corrected & condensed): "Wood from the kerf does travel below the slot. Do you think a portion of one's hand might take that same path?" Answer: Yep, I do. The exact same portion you said yourself: a kerf's width. (And no deeper than the initial contact.)

Last comments from me: I don't think you are visualizing what happens with a band saw blade well enough. I'll repeat my suggestion: get a pair of gloves and a carrot and TRY IT. Everything else is speculation. Second: leather isn't fabric, and solid-leather gloves don't contain "threads" except on seams. Again: gloves or no gloves on a bandsaw is barely worth discussing. On other tools (i.e., chainsaws), it can be very important, and that's the reason I posted in the first place.

You try roughing 20 bowls a day without a glove on your left hand (if you're a right handed person), and tell me how your hamburger, I mean hand feels. Thanks, but I'll be wearing my gloves. I like the skin on my hand, and not having it wood-blasted into hamburg is a good thing. As long as the gloves are tight fitting, and I mean tight, you're fine. If they have baggy areas to catch, they don't belong on the lathe.

@listentoWyntMarsalis 5/5 - to THINK about each tool, rather than make a blanket judgement. Gloves with a bandsaw: CAN'T make a blade contact worse; CAN provide a little extra protection. Gloves with a chainsaw: YES YES YES. Gloves with a Lathe: NO NO NO. Not wearing gloves when bandsawing isn't harmful enough to have spent all this time on it. But it IS dangerous to NOT wear gloves with other tools. Your original mis-statement of the rule says otherwise, and somebody might believe it.

I'm telling you not to be stupid and careless enough to get your hand that close to the blade to begin with. And no, the blade will NOT pull the glove through the slot and continue to pull your hand into the blade. I run a 20", 5hp Davis and Wells bandsaw, and I have everything from a 1TPI hook tooth to a little 12tpi band. I had a friend one day comment on my wearing gloves while cutting bowl blanks. I ran my glove into the blade holding it stretched out, it just cut the glove, no pulling.