Hello!!

To those of you who would like hand protection, I have a tip. BTW I make no money for sales. That will be proven when you see they don't ask for any info about me when you make a purchase.

I may have brought this up before. If so, sorry.

There are gloves out there that are knit with stainless steel encased with a thin coating of textiles. It's steel-cored yarn. Mine were knit, and they are absolutely bullet-proof. And I didn't notice when I bought them, that there is a glove made with two steel strands in the yarn. I'm going to get a pair of those. Their main purpose is to protect fish-filleters, butchers, etc.

I don't want to even give a hint of spamming, so I suggest you use your search engine with keywords steel and glove. Look through the results to find the two-strand version.

I also have arm guards with thumb holes. They are made with finely woven Kevlar, with enough layers to give assurance that a bite or big scratches to the forearm won't penetrate the protection. The gloves go on first, then the arm guards, so the lizard can't just push the glove off. You can find them on-line too. They are not at all expensive.

For me, with an untame (I'm working to get him to not get way stressed if I ever have to pick him up when he's grown.) pre-adult Blackthroat, the protection makes me feel a lot safer.

My dog decided to chew up one of the woven steel-core gloves, and he made holes in it because the gloves are knit and flexible. I pulled out about a two inch strand an tried to cut it with a sharp knife. It would not cut, and that was just one strand. I sawed at that strand. Now I need to sharpen the knife. I peeled of the layers of fabric that surrounded he steel strand, and boy I never would have known that such thin s-s wire could stop a sharp knife. I'm gonna get the two-strand model.

I'm convinced that those of us with Arguses and other biting lizards, would enjoy the extra protection. I count on it, because my pre-adult BT would make a very bad bite if he ever decided to do that during training.

Just trying to be helpful,
and
Happy herping,

clffdvr

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