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The Irony Of It All
Brad Hollerbach

A Surplus Of Left-Handed Work Gloves

Posted Friday, May 28, 2010, at 12:00 AM

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  • Actual Rick, I tend to wear my socks out uniformly. Must be that left-foot then right-foot then left-foot etc. process of walking.

    However, if I get a pebble in a shoe then that particular sock can get worn out faster, but it could happen to either foot.

    Thanks for reading.

    -- Posted by Brad_Hollerbach on Fri, May 28, 2010, at 11:31 AM
  • Brad, In the interests of recycling, maybe you could put all those left handed gloves to use. I suggest that Cape could have a special "left handed glove" recycling day. Then we could have a "right handed glove" recycling day. Although the ratio of left handed to right handed gloves recycled should be 10:1, we could get our proposed new casino to put odds on that. I think it could catch on.

    -- Posted by jcwill on Fri, May 28, 2010, at 12:38 PM
  • Howdy Brad,

    I do appreciate your posting... I've got over a dozen expensive goatskin, deerskin (supple, wear-resistant) and regular leather left gloves orphaned by their tattered right twins... SOMEwhere out there there must be thousands of good right gloves wanting a mate! Surely the internet is the place to find estranged items like this! There are other items, too, that might find a second life in the hands of a Lefty and vice-versa. (vegetable peelers, but you can flip the blade or sharpen)

    Pigskin gloves are VERY cheap & supple, but often don't last thru the project. Deerskin is very good- but $35 and up! Sueded gloves are only for show,

    synthetics are sweaty and will twist around.

    I saw some local masonry workers using leather work gloves, but they would either snip the tips off the gloves and use electrical tape right on their fingertips OR, some would tape the glove fingertips (not snipped off) I've tried the tape on the glove trick - especially if there's already a hole and it's effective, but you lose sensitivity for sure.

    I will try (posted by Rick) turning them inside-out. but maybe they should soften up with neatsfoot oil, Lexol or hand cream before they'll

    evert.

    I'll have to keep scrolling through Google's 9 billion responses to "left-handed work gloves". When I'm 93 I'll find the answer.

    -- Posted by OtisHertz on Sun, Oct 17, 2010, at 10:49 AM
  • I have the opposite problem. I am a blacksmith and use a glove on my non-dominant hand. I have lots of right gloves and always need left (leather work gloves).

    -- Posted by Keith Zimmerman on Thu, Feb 7, 2019, at 2:48 PM