Keeping my greasy mitts off of my work - gloves?

jcfay wrote:

Thanks all - I'll probably stick with the hand-washing.  Those gloves hermetically seal in your hands and the hand sweat and I just find them really a pain in the posterior.  The powder-free variety are gnarly to put on too and then stick on there like nobody's business.  I guess I could always get botox injections in my hands - believe it or not they use that stuff also to (temporarily) nuke people's sweat glands who sweat too much.  So if anyone suffers from super sweaty _____, then talk to you doc.  Super expensive, though.  Adios and thanks again :-)

Here is an idea...never tried it though...

Get some anti-persperant deoderant and rub it all over your hands....make sure you wash them good after. That anti-persperant's effects should last even after washing. (at least that "Mitchum" stuff does..."so powerful, you could skip a day." )

I use cotton gloves, they're soft and allow my hands to breath. Check with companies that deal with photography equipment and handling.

Jesse

usmc1371 wrote:

I use cotton gloves, they're soft and allow my hands to breath. Check with companies that deal with photography equipment and handling. Jesse

No problems with lint?

jcfay wrote:

...mini condoms for fingers!...What the heck did you need those for work for? ...

I work for a safety supply company and we literally carry dozens of makes/models/styles of hand protection.

My suggestion to you is to use nitrile gloves. The are very tight fitting for dexterity and tactile feel for small parts, are impervious to most substances we modelers handle, are relatively cheap, are latex free and don't rip or degrade over time like latex does. In fact, I get my sister-in-law a box every few months for her hair salon. She uses them to keep hair dye from staining her hands and she even throws them in the washing machine to re-use them!

Another alternative is cotton lisle gloves. We sell these to companies that have quality control inspectors handling sensitive parts that can't have skin oils, etc. on them.

Personally, I keep a box of cheap latex gloves around for airbrushing just to keep my hands clean, and a box of nitrile gloves around whenever I have to handle anything that must not have skin oils on it (i.e. natural metal finishes).

Sometimes I just lay a clean kleenex on the model then pick it up with the kleenex between my hand and the model.  I normally reserve this for the later stages....after top coats have been applied.

QT