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I have owned so many leather gloves it ain't funny. From stripping forms on a concrete job to firewood, to hunting camp to chores around the farm. Recently, I would go through two pair of gloves a month cleaning machinery at a tool and die factory. I buy the cheapest , best fit I can get and call it good. None of em last that long when one is gittin er done!

This is one of the reasons I've gone over pretty much to the Kevlar gloves they handed out at work for safety reasons. Although I love the feel of leather gloves when I'm working, I've found the synthetic gloves we got at work lasted longer, fit better and were more comfortable. Since they fit more snug on my hands I could do relatively fine work with them if I needed to and they are cut resistant, which I've proved a couple times at work by running a drill bit into them while running and it just wound up on the bit instead of penetrating and leaving a blood trail....
I've got a whole bag of them left over from the end of a job they were just going to toss in the trash, so I brought them home and use them for everything...

I think they're called Max Flex ...

Bob

2X should be fine. I’m dainty.

Thanks.

Those used to be size large.

Now I have to find a 2x or 3(!)x large glove.

Remember a few years ago when clothing companies modified their sizes to make heavy women feel better about themselves?

They did the same thing with gloves for men, just in reverse. I used to wear a large or x large.

Same thing with the Raven black nitrile gloves from Napa....that are no longer available anyway.

Elk skin are my glove of choice. Yellowstone is the brand if I remember correctly. They make handling thorn trees and barbed wire much less less pleasant.

What?

Yellowstone Gloves out of Idaho Falls, ID, my all time favorite work and hunting gloves. They are pricey, but last two to three times longer than cowhide. Bought a dozen pair two years ago and down to my last three pair.

I used to could fit in a medium of certain brands, the Costco ones at one time. They were tight on the palm area but fit my short fingers. Then, I think when they started making them in......................CHINA............I had to start getting a large to fit the palm of my hand and the fingers have too much overhang now.

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I always wonder, if I have to wear a large, what do guys with real meathooks have to wear. Thanks to Jim, I think I know now.

About the only thing this thread us missing, is that pic of jeffzero’s “manly work gloves” from a few years back.

Would be cool if that were to be found.

In my experience pigskin gets very slimy when wet and rots from salt sweat.

For dexterity I buy deerskin. Goat hide gloves also look very appealing, and feel very soft. But I have never done more than tried them on at the store, then bought the deer hide.

Horse hide is pretty tough, and sweat resistant. That is what we have used for bucking hay bales for 60 years.

But I often use and actually prefer elkhide for all but the most delicate tasks, which are usually done bare handed anyway. I have a pair of elk hide gloves on the bench now beside the lead melting pot. Casting bullets or sinkers is the perfect application. Thick enough for insulation from the mold or spashes of molten lead. Durable to the extreme. And quite comfortable. I have had boots made of elkhide in the past. I think it is about the most durable leather available.

I can not name the brand. They are always on display at our local farmer Co-op, or at the suburban/hobby farm supply stores popping up with gentrification of the farm communities.

Anyone in tree country have gloves, and boots chewed up by porcupines?

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