Painter’s Mitt Stain Glove Review

Are you planning a big wood stain project? Check out our Painter’s Mitt Stain Glove Review to see if this tool might make your project easier!

Would you like to make applying wood stain easier? Today we are reviewing a tool that promises to do just that – a Painter’s Mitt Stain Glove.

We tested this SuperTuff paint mitt to see if this staining glove would really make staining quicker and easier, and help you to reach areas in your stain project without a paint brush!

Let’s see how the paint mitt worked and if we recommend it.

What is a Paint Mitt?

Paint mitts are soft gloves that can be worn on your hand and used to paint or stain directly – no brush needed. You just dip the mitt into your stain!

These are multi-layered, lined gloves. The outside is a soft, lint-free material and the inside is lined with a plastic to prevent your hand from getting paint or stain on it.

We tested this SuperTuff paint mitt to determine if it would be a good product to recommend!

What are the benefits of a paint mitt?

Staining mitts are designed so that you do not need to use a brush or cloth – you stain directly with your hand.

This should theoretically be easier and more intuitive for your hand and make projects go quicker.

The paint mitts are also washable and therefore, theoretically, reusable and eco friendly.

Historically, whenever we have needed to stain a project, we have just used disposable nitrile gloves and a disposable tack cloth and that has always gotten the job done.

When to Use the SuperTuff Paint Mitt

There are definitely situations where the paint mitt is particularly useful and effective. To me, this would be when you need to do a large amount of intricate stain work. For example:

• Fence posts
• Railings
• Balusters

It’s definitely not worth putting the glove on and getting it dirty for a small project. You will want to reserve this for a large, intricate project with a lot of repetitive details.

The stain mitt is good for rounded balusters or dowels because you can grip the entire thing in one handful and stain in one sweep.

How to use a painting glove

Here are the steps to use a painting glove to stain wood:

1. Remove from the packaging
2. Pick off any bit of loose fluffs
3. Put your hand in the glove
4. Dip it into your paint or stain
5. Rub your glove onto your wood project until you get full coverage
6. Re-dip and repeat
7. Use unused portion of the glove to wipe off excess

Review of the SuperTuff Paint Mitt

We grabbed this paint mitt and tested it knowing we didn’t have the perfect project – we just wanted to test the product out for y’all.

And, we were not super impressed with this product.

Here are the difficulties that we had with our paint mitt:

• Size – Sean is a decently large guy (6’2″) and his hand still only went 2/3 of the way up – there was a lot of floppy excess on the end, making it a little hard to control
• Hard to fit into stain can – the glove was way too big to fit into a standard can of stain, making it awkward to use
• Doesn’t reach into nooks – the glove was too clunky to get into the deepest recesses and inner corners on our project.
• Difficult to wash – we tried to rinse the glove out, but it was a sloppy mess. I don’t feel comfortable putting it in our clothing washing machine. Paint might be easier to wash out, but we ended up throwing it away.

Conclusion

Overall, the SuperTuff paint mitt can have useful applications, but is not good for small projects or ones that need a small amount of paint or stain. It has the potential to be useful on a large staining project, like a deck, but wouldn’t get useful for staining a single piece of furniture.

However, the mitt is set at a fairly cheap price point, so it’s worth giving it a shot to see if it is something that would be valuable for your staining or painting project.

Any more questions about using a Paint Mitt for staining wood?