Truly warm fingerless glove recommendation

[Gohackyourself]

As per title - need advice on the warmest preferably not too bulky fingerless gloves for someone bordering on having Raynaud syndrome.? Thanks

[MrsAvocet]

@lljkk have you tried "lobster" style gloves for cycling? It took me a couple of rides to get confident in only having a "claw" and not all my fingers free but now I wouldn't wear anything else in the winter. I find them much warmer than regular cycling gloves, even ones that are supposed to be highly insulated.

[NotMeNoNo]

Have a look at Catherine Tough for ones with separate fingers.

[NotMeNoNo]

Do you actually need touchscreen gloves? I think of fingerless gloves as best for chilly indoors rather than really cold outdoors.

[CMOTDibbler]

@lljkk When double gloving with wristwarmers I wear the wristwarmers over the gloves which works much better than the other way around. For me, wristwarmers are a comfortable all day wear with typing etc where gloves aren't, and I can wear thicker wristwarmers where fingerless gloves would need to be very thin.
When cycling, I use arm warmers pulled down from their normal position to bridge the sleeve/glove gap properly and come to my thumb joint

[Gohackyourself]

Thank you everyone ( I hate unfinished threads:-) ) I’ve looked at turtle doves but think they are a little expensive , but it looks like it’s unanimous lol.
I have quite wide hands and fat fingers - the doves look like they are meant to fit very slender hands ?!

[lljkk]

When double gloving with wristwarmers I wear the wristwarmers over the gloves which works much better than the other way around.

So The outer layer gets wet.
What do you wear when you go indoors at destination since full finger gloves are impractical & outer layer is now wet & cold? And of course (if you're me) you still have very cold hands in most indoor temps? In pre-covid world I did keep dry spare fgrless-gloves at work for this potential problem, tbf.

I feel like I have tried a lot of expensive products over the years so now know that cheap lycra sleeves & acrylic fingerless gloves underneath my full finger gloves are about best there is - but still can't do the job cycling in true winter more than a few miles. I can't find a way to keep my feet warm on the bike for long disances in cold weather either. No amount of neoprene (that includes my neoprene gloves) can do the job. But thanks to this thread I dug out some (ancient, baggy) lycra sleeves which are insulating nicely. With acrylic fingerless gloves, wool jumper, t-shirt, fleece & neck buff of course -- and that's indoors. At least it's all machine washable.

I probably don't have patience to hand wash gloves, either, which cashmere seems to require. Can you just imagine getting dog crap on them (I was walking dog this morning in stormy conditions).

[CMOTDibbler]

I confess I have many, many sets of the Manbi wrist warmers which while inelegant are washable, repel water unless its hissing down, in which case I'll wear waterproof lobster gloves. The cashmere ones are for smarter wear - I have half sleeve things sold for 'modest wear' which are like high denier tights for work wear when its warmer but not enough to not have anything over my wrists and half hand.
Lifes too short to handwash anything, hence why I have a giant basket of gloves by the front door which go from down filled mittens (bliss with a handwarmer sachet in) down all the permutations of silk glove liners etc along with running gloves, cycling gloves etc

[AnotherFuckingUsername]

@Gohackyourself - my hands aren't particularly slender (I've just measured and from the outside of the lowest knuckle on my pinkie to the same of my thumb, I'm 10cm).

[BarbaraofSeville]

I have some turtle doves and sometimes just wear then pushed back up my wrists rather than with my thumbin the thumb hole if I think they're getting in the way of what my hands are doing, but they still keep my wrists warm.

I got mine in a lucky dip event so were quite a bit cheaper than full price.

Maybe sign up to their mailing list OP and keep an eye out for special offers.