Fingerlees dive gloves

[meex56]

Hello everyone,

I am looking for factory made fingerless dive gloves that are warm/thick enough for PNW waters (not even sure if they exist)

I have found a few posts of people making their own by just simply cutting off the tips and laying aqua seal over them to stop them from fraying. Anyone ever try this? If so would you recommend it?

Please let me know the advice you have on either way... Homemade or factory

Thanks again everyone

[Desert Diver]

My advice is leave the fingers on.

[spatman]

Just out of curiosity, why do you want fingerless gloves for diving up here?

[Nwbrewer]

Hello everyone,

I am looking for factory made fingerless dive gloves that are warm/thick enough for PNW waters (not even sure if they exist)

I have found a few posts of people making their own by just simply cutting off the tips and laying aqua seal over them to stop them from fraying. Anyone ever try this? If so would you recommend it?

Please let me know the advice you have on either way... Homemade or factory

Thanks again everyone

I'm going to go with Desert Diver and recommend keeping the fingers on for diving locally. Loss of dexterity from hands that are numb is a bigger liability than the loss of dexterity from gloves.

If you really want to try it though, just run a lighter quickly over the cut edges to prevent fraying.

[mpenders]

I agree with Nwbrewer. Personally, I wouldn't recommend cutting off the tips of your glove fingers. The resulting flushing of water would render the insulating ability of the gloves mostly useless. Cold numb hands are less effective than warmer clumsy hands.

The lack of dexterity using cold water gloves is something that you learn to deal with, and it becomes less of an issue the more you use them. Seasoft has a couple models of gloves that have different/thinner thickness of neoprene that covers the index finger, available in either 5/3mm, 3/1.5mm, or a 3/2/1mm configurations. I'd be leaning toward a thinner glove rather than a fingerless model.

Before I moved to dry gloves, I used one of the 5/3mm models. Having thinner neoprene covering my index finger was nice when trying to figure out how to operate my camera. I've learned to deal with the loss of dexterity now, and it's not as much an issue.

[meex56]

Just out of curiosity, why do you want fingerless gloves for diving up here?

I can use the thick Kevlar coated gloves I dive with currently but for tiying knots and rigging, it is extremely difficult

Again, easier with practice