[Jewelry making - Article 00103] - Re: hand damage

[andrew.berry AT virgin.net]

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Hi Allan

    My wife has gone through loads of stockings. My hands are so rough that
    they scag and ladder at the slightest touch.

    I find my index fingers and thumbs take the most bashing. I grow the nails
    on these fingers slightly longer to protect the tips. They are used all the
    time, absorbing the graver when it slips, getting cut from the saw blade
    and just getting hard skin.

    We`ve recently been using leather finger tip protectors and crocodile skin
    but you just can not feel anything through them.

    Plenty of hand cream is best. I know its sounds strange but it works.

    Anyone else got any ideas 

Andrew



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