Has anyone worked out a way to repair gloves? I get through so many pairs because the fingers fail, even high quality ones like these Stihl ones! Always the same fingers / thumb! 👎🏻
I don’t think a patch would last (tried it with the last pair, the stitches just catch on things and rip). I have another quality pair of gloves in the same condition as yours at the moment. I’m currently considering unpicking or cutting the stitching and then cutting off all of the leather on the thumb at a point where it would be easiest to stitch it back on, and less vulnerable to catching on stuff. Then using the cut leather as a template to cut a new piece, from an old pair. I don’t have much confidence, but as it’s that or chuck them, it’s worth a go. If you also fancy trying this, you need strong thread, not just any old sewing thread, and a strong pointy thing, like a stitching awl, to make the hole. When I tried to just use the needle to do this, I made a lot of holes in my fingers, but not many in the leather.
thegreatart7
Use construction style cut proof gloves. We use them at work doing ecow and help out arb teams. Only time we put on the big leather lads is when taking blackthorn or hawthorn to the chipper.
TheShamelessNameless
Try getting non-endless gloves
chaosandturmoil
i should have read the caption much quicker than i did
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I don’t think a patch would last (tried it with the last pair, the stitches just catch on things and rip). I have another quality pair of gloves in the same condition as yours at the moment. I’m currently considering unpicking or cutting the stitching and then cutting off all of the leather on the thumb at a point where it would be easiest to stitch it back on, and less vulnerable to catching on stuff. Then using the cut leather as a template to cut a new piece, from an old pair. I don’t have much confidence, but as it’s that or chuck them, it’s worth a go. If you also fancy trying this, you need strong thread, not just any old sewing thread, and a strong pointy thing, like a stitching awl, to make the hole. When I tried to just use the needle to do this, I made a lot of holes in my fingers, but not many in the leather.
Use construction style cut proof gloves. We use them at work doing ecow and help out arb teams. Only time we put on the big leather lads is when taking blackthorn or hawthorn to the chipper.
Try getting non-endless gloves
i should have read the caption much quicker than i did
You’re working too hard boyo