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Originally Posted by Chris is me
Gloves could get snagged in that lathe pretty easily (and pull large parts of your body around and around) while not really protecting your hands from anything.
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True story: I could have lost much more than part of my fingernail freshman year if I had been wearing gloves while using the lathe (we're still not too sure how that happened, actually). You shouldn't even have to protect your hands from hot metal chips flying anywhere, because if you're using the lathe properly, you should get nice, even, cool-looking spiral chips that don't fly unless they get extremely long and snag on something.
Boys and girls, gloves and moving parts do not mix very well.