Customer Reviews

Ironclad Framer Gloves FUG-04-L, Large

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(7)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

Sorry to say that the problem w/ these is what everyone else is
saying, durability - or should I say lack of durability.
These gloves are a great idea & the previous version had a palm that was thick enough to save my hands from nails, monster splinters & pressure treated lumber - but the seems shred like crazy. I also have the general utility glove - that's even worse -
every finger is taped! They have a great idea w/ these gloves though - they fit great, my hands breath in them, the dexterity is excellent & they do really keep your hands from becoming something resembling 60 grit sandpaper... they just don't last. At the price they charge for them they need to hold up longer. Maybe someone should forward all these reviews to the folks at Ironclad. If they could make them tougher, I'd buy a case... in the meantime, save the bucks - they just don't hold up well enough if you do this kind of work for a living.

I purchased these gloves to try them out. Since I do very light work I figured that these gloves were a sure win, boy was I mistaken. After about two weeks of just wearing them around the gloves literally started coming apart at the seams. What good is the "man-made leather palm that's reinforced in the excessive wear areas and is double stitched for added durability" if it doesn't stay on the... glove???? I've had regular canvas gloves last longer while doing harder work.

I purchased these gloves based on a couple of good reviews, ignoring the few bad ones. The gloves were very comfortable right out of the box. They live up to the manufacturers advertising. Unfortunately, they lasted for four days of moderately hard wood working. Not construction ... wood working. These are expensive for disposable gloves.

I am a carpenter and use these for framing, sheathing, siding and a few hundred other related tasks. I am reviewing this poduct from that viewpoint.
It's tough to find the glove that gives you enough movement and doesn't slow you down. Ironclad has the right idea and they kinda become a new set of skin (saving your real skin). The feel is awesome and after a while you really don't even notice them anymore.
The problem for me is they only last 3-4 weeks before they are shredded. My hands no longer are though.
I figure with the amount of work I get out of 'em they are still worth the $ (kinda) but if I found another that lasted longer with this kind of feel I'd probably switch.
All in all, the best framer/carpenter glove out there.

I had been searching for a quality work glove with "feel" for years, thought I found it in these gloves. I was unfortunately let down. Great gloves, great "feel", wore out in less than a month.

These gloves are durable for the first month as long as the don't get wet - then they shrink like O.J.'s gloves did. I have found that in handling OSB or other sheathing that the material is not quite capable of stopping the smallest of splinters from piercing your hand through the glove either. Aside from having to spend $25 a month to replace your gloves, one good aspect their ability to grip materials or help you hang onto a new roof loaded with sawdust...

The Makita gloves are far superior - just not skin tight.

Even though my framer's gloves are falling apart, I have gotten my money's worth as far as the savings go with band -aids ( - =
An Ironclad rep told me that the newer glove models have improved stitching quality. I am going to order another pair to see if I can note the improvements.

Nice glove. I have owned them for a year now and give them a workout building small sheds and other construction projects. Very nice for fingering nails or other fine work. Threading is starting to pull away on some of the pads, but still a good glove with a lot of life left in them. I will never go back to "heavy leather" type gloves again.

Didn't get a week's worth of work out of these before they started to unravel. And at 55, I'm only half the roughneck I used to be. Save your money.

I've used a pair of these for the past year with great satisfaction. They fit much better than various leather/fabric gloves from tool stores. Most gloves I've used are in the $12-$17 dollar range, don't fit well, and I need to cut the finger tips off so I can grab screws and small objects. These gloves wore out very slowly and are now shredded (but still usable), so I've now bought my second pair. At $23-ish dollars they seem expensive, but I think I'm getting what I'm paying for. We install commercial doors and hardware, so we use power tools and door hardware. I'm sure that if someone is working with raw lumber, or very abrasive items, that the gloves may not hold up as long as they have for me, plus, I'm not in the field every single day, I estimate they would have lasted almost 6 months with professional, 8 hour a day usage in our field of work. I can't imagine what to do to make them better, if they are more rugged, they won't be flexible enough to do fine finish work...there is always a trade-off. No complaints here.