From PolyPerformances site:

Design Features:

-Synthetic Leather Palm with Grip "Love Hand" :laughing:
-Terry Cloth Sweat Wipe
-Reinforced Finger Tips
-Double Stitch
-EasyFlex Neoprene Wrist
-EasyPull Rubber Wrist Closure

crappy pics that I took:

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These gloves are extremely comfortable and appear very well made. As a plus, you can see that the fingers are color-coded in case you are too inebriated to remember what goes where…..so to speak. Furthermore, the no-slip-love-grip palm means no more dropping your drinks as you wrench. Brilliant! The only caveat I find with these is that I think they run a little small. While I do have large hands (ladies, I’m only one p.m. away), XL gloves typically fit me easily, while these are very snug despite being XL. So if you order some, err on the larger sizes. Unless you're a wussy with petite hands.

This concludes our "tech" review of the "Shocker love gloves". I’ve been using them for a couple of months now and have been very pleased. A must for any not-so-serious fhapricator :smokin:

You have a low comfort zone

Yea, for Canadians.








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Synthetic leather simply does not last. I wear holes through them in a couple weeks. If you touch something hot with the synthetic leather, it shrinks. Weld spatter makes short work of the backs of those style gloves. Deer skin gloves work best for me. You can get gloves similar to the mechanics style gloves, but with deer skin, pig skin, or goat skin palms instead of synthetic leather.

Synthetic leather simply does not last. I wear holes through them in a couple weeks. If you touch something hot with the synthetic leather, it shrinks. Weld spatter makes short work of the backs of those style gloves. Deer skin gloves work best for me. You can get gloves similar to the mechanics style gloves, but with deer skin, pig skin, or goat skin palms instead of synthetic leather.

Ding ding Ding.

Synthetic works for minimal wrenching but any other type of fab work or even daiyl usage wrenching and they are toast!

Mecahix gloves was suposed to have a "fabricators" glove, has anyone seen them?

Mecahix gloves was suposed to have a "fabricators" glove, has anyone seen them?

I've seen them on sale but not in use they are def. thicker. Check eBay for a deal on Mechanix gloves... the "original" and others don't last to long during any type of hard work or fabbing.

Mecahix gloves was suposed to have a "fabricators" glove, has anyone seen them?

I bought a pair, super comfortable and fairly durable, lasted about 3 months of almost daily use welding and fabbin' before the fingers wore through. I'd buy them again if I could find them cheap.

Well, I will say that although they've held up fine after a couple of months use, I do have a pair of heavy welding gloves for that use, and a couple sets of other leather gloves for heavy fabrication, etc. I can certainly attest they've held up great to holding drinks while dinking around in the shop though :D

I've had a pair of "IronClad" General Utility (https://www.ironclad.com/www/productDetail.jsp?prodID=50&catID=25) gloves for four years. I've worn them on a few ATV trips & gotten them soaked in gooey Alaskan mud. Washed out fine. (Non-shrinking washability is one advantage of the synthetic suede. It also "breathes" fairly well, which unfortunately also means that they soak up anything they touch.) The first time I soaked them in PAO (http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5766517-claims.html) I didn't expect it to come out, so I marinated them in a dish soap & laundry detergent slurry for a few days. They emerged unharmed, not faded, and most importantly not oily. After that I just threw them in the washer occasionally, though I only air-dried them. They shrugged that off as well.

They're certainly not invincible. I'm not the type to drag my hands over rough surfaces (I have delicate pink hands :p) but I have still worn through the outer layer of pseudo-suede on the fingertips, and they are nearly dead. (I used gray RTV to glue the shreds together to extend their life some as well.) I've made them survive an exceptionally long time, perhaps because my work was largely with precision parts (http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/lantirn.htm).
I wish I could get a new pair without the rubber knobbies on the Velcro closure. I cut all the rubber crap off my old pair so I could reach in my pockets, but you can't cut it off the closure on the newer ones. :( I still bought a new pair for when these finally crap out entirely, though.

If you tend to gunk up your gloves rather than wear them out, synthetic suede may be for you. :)
I don't trust them for welding, though... Most of what I've welded are one-off ghettofab tools (http://s26.photobucket.com/albums/c106/sousemouse/shop/), and I tend to hold parts in place manually for tacking, and then I MIG 'em 'til they turn red. Insulated welding gloves mean I smell the burning well before I'd feel it. :shaking:

Edit: I'd bet on the screenprinted "love hand" design looking like crap fairly quickly, though. (Also, I live in New Mexico now and I have my thermostat set to 60F. I'm a cheap bastard, and I used to live in North Pole, Alaska. :flipoff2: )

I fab with bare hands:flipoff2: Once you build up the hide on your hands they are tough as leather and don't cost anything.:cool2:

I like my TILLMAN deerskin gloves. $10. After melting or wearing out several pairs of $20 Mechanix gloves, I found these at the welding store. They also have some that are all deerskin leather.
Unfortunately, they don't come with "the shocker" instructions, which of course, we all know makes you a better "Xtr3me!fhaprication-er" fabricator:flipoff2: Pro- your spelling sucks! :flipoff2: One pic I took and 2 I borrowed off the interweb.
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Sams Club 3 pack of wolverines for around $25 and they last as long as anything I have tried. I am hard on gloves, Mechanics fab gloves are a 5 day glove, deer skin fron HD about 7 and most heavy elk goat and cow gloves last a couple weeks. Every time the wife or I got to sams a pack of wolverines gets thrown in.

Wayne

I fab with bare hands:flipoff2: Once you build up the hide on your hands they are tough as leather and don't cost anything.:cool2:

You are some kind of bad SOB.:laughing: :laughing: