The Definitive Slide Gloves Thread

**Betterthanux5** · 02-02-2010 06:34 PM

Originally Posted by VivaLaDan

I think you might have those finger pucks on sideways

nah its the way i had my other gloves. i mean that is sorta a preference thing. i don't like the feel of the loaded finger puck. even if it was cut in two

**SheepGoToHeaven** · 02-19-2010 05:05 PM

Who ever skates with ovenmit slide gloves gets rep from me. lol'd when I saw that on the first page.

**JonJon** · 02-24-2010 07:47 PM

<minirant>Just being a little over observant...It seems alot of people asked stupid questions in the first few pages of the thread. I only read like the first 10 or so then skimmed a bit. But why the hell would you ask how to make them or the best material if the guy who posted the thread explains the basic of it and like 4 different materials. Regardless the idea of making slide gloves is pretty much common since. You can pretty much make them out of anything..I made my first pair out of a air hockey puck.. get creative. And with the corian pieces if they arent free steal them bitches! </minirant>

**JonJon** · 02-25-2010 09:03 PM

Didn't see the edit button but here are the new pair i made today.

**Redzzza** · 02-27-2010 08:51 AM

i screwed chopping board to my ice skating gloves :P its works like wonders, but the wool is coming off, i need to buy some other glove

**Bruce22** · 02-27-2010 10:36 AM

the old loaded ones with wristguards worked perfect, I like my landys too

simple = better

**Fuznubz** · 03-02-2010 11:52 AM

im stoked: we have corian counters, and i just found a 2 1/2 by 1 1/2 foot sheet of it, hopefully my parents wont mind letting it go. they said they'd get me some slide gloves, then just backed out when they found out they are $60 bucks, so i'll give em an alternative: "spare" corian, or $60 slide gloves

**crimeboarder** · 03-05-2010 10:43 AM

.I have been using a very cheap and effective type of glove for years. they are made of $10 welding gloves with 1 large piece of plexiglas (NOT ACRYLIC) sheet in the middle not covering the fingers at all. double sided velcro keeps it on. the fingers are covered with super diamond clear or some other wood floor sealer/hard finish. the stuff is flexible and very avrasive resistant. Overall it is a very comfortable, flexibel, light and long lasting glove.

**crimeboarder** · 03-05-2010 10:48 AM

.dont be using uhmw and other stupid soft plastics. plexigalss or other hard plate plastics are great because they last virtualy forever and slide like ice. haha I ate it prety good the first time I trie plexigalss because my arms slid right out from under me and I hit the ground. a few times I fell of my board and jumped a sloped curb into a fence because they slide so well.

**crimeboarder** · 03-05-2010 10:57 AM

.Anyway how on earth are you soposed to grab your board with an inch of plastic on your fingertips. the plexiglass is only 1/4 inch and superdiamond clear will give perfect flexibility when grabing.

**schwaman** · 03-09-2010 05:16 PM

finger pucks are for pansies. be a man, duct tape fingers.

**longboards** · 03-09-2010 08:43 PM

Heck yeah. My first gloves were duct tape with a coat of wood varnish. My favorite gloves until landys with BVs.

**VIP Supraman** · 03-12-2010 03:12 AM

poop poop poop

**VivaLaDan** · 03-12-2010 11:09 AM

Of course there are harder plastics, but generally peaking with plastics, harder = shatter. Plexiglass? Shatters. Not to mention it doesn't take much heat to completely warp plexglass, have fun dealing with that when it gets warmer out and the roads become hot.

UHMW is a proven material that works just fine. WHy you would want anything else is just plain stupidity, someone trying to do something new and innovative when in reality is just being stupid and dangerous.

**VIP Supraman** · 03-12-2010 01:39 PM

noob slider here. i have loaded gloves already but no pucks or anything. pretty much just the glove. would the industrial velcro attach to the velcro of the loaded glove?
thanks!

EDIT: Nvm...

**crimeboarder** · 03-17-2010 04:12 PM

SHATTER wow you would have to use a hammer to shatter 1/4 inch plexiglass. and man you would have to slide for miles on a non abrasive surface to melt plexiglass. Think about it they are used on sky lights for housed in direct sunlite. whats more comfortable a sheet of plexiglas or a hockey puck that is as heavy as a baseball glove.

**BigTreeFallHard** · 03-18-2010 12:05 PM

i just posted this in a "make your own" slide glove thread, but thought i should add it here as well. i own two pairs of used slide gloves i've gotten thru friends, but i just made my own pair finally. the dude at home depot was beyond nice and gave me at least 60 corian tile squares of the colors no one was in demand for. Sweet!

However here is an awesome website that is the wholesaler of corian tile samples to the major retail stores that was on the box he gave me.

http://www.coriansamples.com/prostor...let/StoreFront

all the small 2" squares are $1/ea, and the larger 4"squares are only $2 each and are great palm pucks. If ur also lookin to add some funk to ur gloves, they got some pretty interesteing colors of tile on this site. Thought this might be a good resource!

**Dark Concrete Slida** · 03-18-2010 12:09 PM

Circle Pucks, Is all we use to slide.. More comfy on the top of the fingers..

**crimeboarder** · 03-18-2010 01:30 PM

Isnt tile kind of heavy, hence hard to keep on the glove. I bet they make a lot of noise when sliding too. Have you ever trie that mesh tile for showers since it is flexible for the most part.