anti-vibration gloves

["Walter S. Arnold" <walter@zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz>]

Traditionally (and this goes back as far as a U.S. government study on the
effects of air hammers on limestone cutters) people have the most problems
 from vibration and with white finger the first 10 years of using the air
hammer. After that they learn to let the tools do the work and problems
diminish. Don't squeeze the hammer, don't grip it hard. Just cradle it
loosely and guide it, let the vibration go into through the chisel to the
stone. The more you squeeze or tense up the more the vibration comes into
you, and the less efficiently the tool works.

I'll use the baseball gloves (which are expensive, but personally I don't
like fingerless gloves- they wear out too fast and I find them harder to
slip on and off during the day) in the winter, for the cold. I also had to
use them for a while because of a palm injury (squished it while setting
down a block of stone), but for the most part I've worked gloveless with
the air hammers for 30 years, and my hands feel better now than they did 25
years ago.