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Protection for your arms while woodworking
Allen Worsham posted a topic in Machinery, Tools, Research, Reviews and Safety
I have this genetic thin skin on my forearms which causes me to bleed very easily when I bump into something or scrape against something. This is a real pain in the rear when woodworking as getting blood out of wood grain is not easy as well as having big red marks and scabs on my arms. When it is cooler I wear long sleeve shirts, but when it is hot during the summer it gets a bit rough. So after banging my arm yet again the other day I was rather annoyed and was debating about putting on a long sleeve shirt in the 90+ degree heat in the garage. Then it hit me and I thought about those compression sleeves that athletes wear to protect their arms as well as making them smoother with less friction against other players. So I headed over to my local Sports Authority store and picked up the cheapest pair I could find which was $9.99 (they have similar ones with logos of the big name companies all the way up to $30 but still the same materials). I have to say that I really like these sleeves as they are much cooler than wearing a regular long sleeve shirt and they fit very snug around the wrist so nothing dangling to get caught in a spinning bit or blade. Most important I didn't get my arms banged up.
