It's been a rough season for my hands, I've had probably 20 splinters that needed digging out. I guess that's what well seasoned wood will do. I nabbed one of my wife's smaller sewing needles for the tasks. One of the worse splinters was one that I didn't even know was a splinter, but using the needle I manged to stick the end of it, and I pulled out what had to be a 3/8" long splinter from the base of my finger nail... Last week someone told me about using a plastic syringe to suck the splinters out. Anyone ever do the syringe method, or something else?
I use my wife’s Tweezerman Point tweezers—they’re more precise than any other tweezer I’ve used. I think they’re military grade. I just checked their site and they’ve got a model specifically for splinters that looks even better. I’ve tried the soaking method, I can’t remember what it was soaking in but it didn’t seem to help.
Those Tweezerman Splintertweeze actually look pretty good, a little pricey, but most good products are. Looking at reviews on Amazon, there's a couple mentioned by people that work with firewood.
Yeah, but... I have some gloves that I use less than I should.. sometimes they're not convenient. A bad habit that needs to be worked on.
Yep. I had to dig one out of my finger, because I didn't wear gloves losing the stove in the am before work. I was typing and noticed a sharp pain. Yep. There it was palm side of my right middle finger right at the first joint.
Splinters are what motivates me to wear gloves. For whatever reason honey locust splinters really fester up in my experience.
I get splinters almost exclusively from oak splits. It’s when I’m filling a canvas bag to bring inside. If I can’t pull them out I’ll use fn clippers to extract. Sometimes it gets cut off and I have to wait for it to come out naturally. It’s part of firewood season for me. Yes using clippers sometimes involves losing flesh.
I was getting at least one splinter per week. You'd think I would start wearing the gloves that I placed right next to the wood pile, right? Reminds me of this billboard. Don't have anything else to excuse not wearing gloves.
I wear those exact same ones, nearly religiously as well. I just don't wear them loading the stove. Which is pretty much the only way you can get splinters if you have Atlas gloves. The rubber coating prevents them from poking through to skin. I still have plenty left from my big pack of them my wife got me for Christmas like 2 years ago
I despise gloves. Sometimes I wear them, often I get annoyed and throw them off. My hands are horrible during the winter, not as much from wood as they used to be (hopefully will be more wood time from here forward), but things like feeding cows (un-wrapping bales) and just being out in the weather make them like velcro. So, while gloves seem like a simple answer, I cannot "blame" one for not wearing them....
Tweezers or a fresh utility knife blade works most of the time for me. After i shower and skin is soft ill pick away. Never heard of the syringe method.
I wear gloves most of the time...stretch latex coated type. Surprisingly i seldom get splinters...maybe one a month and i handle a lot of firewood. Years of roofing has thickened the skin.
Between mechanical work and firewood I always seem to have a splinter going. It alway grosses my wife out when I go digging for them.
