Re: Numb Left Hand

I use leather weight lifting gloves and a very large,sharp roughing gouge
from Australia ,with a shop built, metal ,shock absorbing handle...
Rick
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> Being right handed, I have unfortunately experienced that after an
> initial roughing of a bowl blank, especially the next day, that my left
> hand, the one guiding the gouge on the toolrest, suffers from numbness
> due to the shock of the tool hitting the the uneven surface of the
> blank.  The sensation is that of how hands feel after a session with a
> weedwacker.  Am I clenching the tool too tightly, maybe lighter cuts??
> The wood I was turning was semi dry pine, sticky and hard as a rock.
> The bowl by the way came out fine.  Maybe there is a shock reducing
> glove thats made for this purpose????  Thanks in advance.
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