Thread: What kinda gloves do you wear that still allow you to feel?

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I just go with dirty hands.

I never found any glove that didn't diminish feel significantly, and I have worn them all my life. It does depend a lot on whether your hands are "pristine", and not beat up and burned and scarred and scabby, though. As I got older, and my hands got more beat up from constantly taking my gloves off so I could feel more, - ---- well, it is a never ending downward spiral. Nitrile or latex will give reasonable "feel", and if you're not sensitive to the material or the sweat that collects inside, they work OK to some degree or another. The thicker the glove, though, the less feel you'll have.

Most of the time, when I am working on a mechanical or woodcraft project, I just go without gloves, and wash up. I use a good bar or powdered soap with pumice in it, and a hand and nail brush, and hot water, and scrub until clean. Once in a while, I'll get a cut that I can't get the dirt out of, but most of the time, my hands look like I just push paper for a living. Using a good hand cream or lotion is essential, too. Once my hands are nice and shiny, I use "Miracle Foot Repair" cream, and do a double application; it does wash off after a while, so one needs to keep a tube handy - always have one in my tool box, and one in the bathroom, and in the car/truck, etc. That's what works for me; of course the old saw applies: "different strokes", and all that. As to the barrier creams that are around the industrial business, I never had any decent luck with them; it was just easier to just scrub up after work.