How should a glove fold?

[Eric F]

Can you explain dual hinge?

A single-hinge glove will have a single fold line across the palm. A dual-hinge will have one fold line at the base of the thumb, and another at the base of the pinky. A well-broken-in dual-hinge glove will be flexible across the palm, but the majority of the movement will be at the two fold lines.

EDIT: If you close your hand thumb tip to index finger tip, this can be accomplished with zero movement in the joint at the base of the thumb - this is single-hinge. If you bring your thumb tip and pinky tip together, there is movement at the base of both thumb and pinky - this is dual-hinge. Smaller hands tend to do better with single-hinge.

 

[Drakemir]

I'll chime in on this thread later tonight when i'm not at work - been meaning to post about gloves in general for a while =)

 

[Drakemir]

So when I first started with upper end gloves - I totally had no idea how to build a pocket in a glove - which has made a huge difference on how my DD fields -


BV1929/Optimus this is a picture of my DD's old BV1929-L on the left, with her new custom Optimus with a properly broken in pocket on the right - having a proper pocket is so important in a glove so the ball sticks - I would see sooo many balls batted to her that would pop out of the pocket and in front of her instead of fielding it cleanly.

Fortus/22/Optimus

This is a Fortus (blue) next too a 22 series with a proper pocket and my DD's Optimus at about 75% broke in - the Fortus is broke in the same way, but doesn't have the leather integrity of the other two gloves. Now the Fortus is a GREAT glove for younger kids - my DS has used that glove exclusively from 8 years old but the easier to break in comes with a lower lifespan of the glove.

You can see on the back shot of this 22, that the glove almost has a hump, its never layed flat, and stored in a very specific way to maintain the pocket

22

Hopefully this helps some.. I'll try to elaborate some when im not exhausted..

 

[BrianTx01]

So when I first started with upper end gloves - I totally had no idea how to build a pocket in a glove - which has made a huge difference on how my DD fields -


BV1929/Optimus this is a picture of my DD's old BV1929-L on the left, with her new custom Optimus with a properly broken in pocket on the right - having a proper pocket is so important in a glove so the ball sticks - I would see sooo many balls batted to her that would pop out of the pocket and in front of her instead of fielding it cleanly.

Fortus/22/Optimus

This is a Fortus (blue) next too a 22 series with a proper pocket and my DD's Optimus at about 75% broke in - the Fortus is broke in the same way, but doesn't have the leather integrity of the other two gloves. Now the Fortus is a GREAT glove for younger kids - my DS has used that glove exclusively from 8 years old but the easier to break in comes with a lower lifespan of the glove.

You can see on the back shot of this 22, that the glove almost has a hump, its never layed flat, and stored in a very specific way to maintain the pocket

22

Hopefully this helps some.. I'll try to elaborate some when im not exhausted..

It looks like the fortus you don't have creased in the hinge. Is this correct?

 

[4 girl's dad]

So when I first started with upper end gloves - I totally had no idea how to build a pocket in a glove - which has made a huge difference on how my DD fields -


BV1929/Optimus this is a picture of my DD's old BV1929-L on the left, with her new custom Optimus with a properly broken in pocket on the right - having a proper pocket is so important in a glove so the ball sticks - I would see sooo many balls batted to her that would pop out of the pocket and in front of her instead of fielding it cleanly.

Fortus/22/Optimus

This is a Fortus (blue) next too a 22 series with a proper pocket and my DD's Optimus at about 75% broke in - the Fortus is broke in the same way, but doesn't have the leather integrity of the other two gloves. Now the Fortus is a GREAT glove for younger kids - my DS has used that glove exclusively from 8 years old but the easier to break in comes with a lower lifespan of the glove.

You can see on the back shot of this 22, that the glove almost has a hump, its never layed flat, and stored in a very specific way to maintain the pocket

22

Hopefully this helps some.. I'll try to elaborate some when im not exhausted..

Dave do you have any pics of the opening side of these gloves ?

 

[Drakemir]

Save do you have any pics of the opening side of these gloves ?

Vinci - Album on Imgur has most of my high quality pictures of the different gloves

 

[BrianTx01]

Vinci - Album on Imgur has most of my high quality pictures of the different gloves

Is that a 12" ball or an 11" ball in the photos?

 

[Drakemir]

12" ball in all the photos - I gave away all my 11s when she moved up

 

[Eric F]

From Drakemir's pics, this is a great example of the dual-hinge break I described above...

 

[BrianTx01]

Based on these photos....It looks like I might have gotten the break in right on my son's Venci Junior. It is only a 10" glove so it might not have the same effect.