what type and what brand of glove to you wear?
Im looking for something very flexible, will not limit my finger mobility, but is strong enough to resist oil based stains and polys.
I use good ole' Harbor Freight's Nitrile. I use both the medium weight and the light weight. I use the medium weight almost exclusively. The blue gloves are the medium; The gloves that look like latex are lighter weight, and smaller.
I have small hands (sort'a like my brain). However, I prefer the medium size, medium weight gloves and use them almost exclusively. I use them over and over and over again. The original box of 100 is still going to have gloves in it when I kick off and turn into atoms and molecules. Do Not Tell HF that I very carefully opened the end of the box and took out a glove and tried it on my main working hand (right hand in my case) while I was still in the store. That is how I picked my size to purchase.
I purchased my two boxes, 100 small and 100 medium several years ago and the boxes still appear to be full. Now, for the rest of the story: If I am ragging Seal Coat for instance, with the gloves still on, I wash my hands with soap in warm water. The gloves look a bit strange the next time I use them but they work fine. If I am into paint I usually wipe the gloves off with a rag and paint thinner. I have not used lacquer since doing bathroom cabinets several years ago; I don't know if I wiped the gloves with lacquer thinner or tossed them at that time.
I find that I get a better feel with the looser gloves; just the opposite of what you would expect. In my practice, in my life, in my shop, in the kitchen I think I have worn a bazillion pair of surgical latex gloves. I have better "feel" with the looser Nitril's than the "surgically" tight latex. I think part of that is---I am going to exaggerate here to explain--- I can tell more about the shape of a golf ball feeling through a loose piece of chamois than I could if the chamois was fit tight like a drum head. The loose glove gives more feel than the tight (even stretched) glove.
I do wear the closer fit gloves if I am doing something where the loose, unfilled, glove fingers might drag into wet finish while I am working. In order to use up all of the gloves in the
"small" box, I am going to have to live to be 200 years old. Now that is a happy thought. Notice that on my small hand (I'm a 5'4" 106 pound male) even the small size is a bit loose. The latex gloves fit me like my skin, there was absolutely NO slack; in fact they were a bit tight.
I hope that this long monolog has been helpful.
Enjoy,
JimB
ps. Both of these pictured gloves have been used and cleaned several times. A few days ago I did rip the cuff of one glove while putting it on. It had been use and cleaned many times before this happened.