Custom Baseball Gloves
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Custom Baseball Gloves
Traditionally, sporting goods stores do lack visible product information. This is troubling because you could make the wrong purchase and start breaking it in only to find out it was the wrong glove for you. Let us offer you a quick guide to buying a custom baseball glove.
Best Leathers for Baseball Gloves
The best leathers for baseball gloves are steer leather and kip leather. These leathers are used to make baseball gloves used by professional ball players.
Other leathers used for baseball gloves are cowhide, sheepskin, goatskin, and synthetics. Depending on the level of baseball in which you participate, a baseball glove made from these leathers is not recommended. For an in-depth explanation, read our Baseball Buyers Guide.
Best Welting on a Baseball Glove
The glove leather is an important part of any baseball glove. But how the gloves’ fingers are kept together makes a difference when fielding hard-hit baseballs.
The strips of material seem to glue the fingers together and hold the front and the back parts together. This material is called glove “welt” or “piping”.
NYStix uses rolled leather, the same leather used for glove shells, to keep the fingers stiff and ready to field those liners. Retail and some other brands may use a weaker material like plastics, cork or vinyl.
Best Baseball Glove Binding
A baseball glove’s “binding” keeps the pocket, back and front shells together. The quality of this leather is crucial in holding the structure of the glove when making normal catches, diving catches and tag outs.
Best Baseball Glove Lacing
Pro rawhide lacing is the most important because it keeps the ball from going through the glove web. Pro lacing will keep the glove together and supports the wear and tear of thousands of catches.
To maximize profits on gloves sold in retail sporting goods stores, brands will use cheaper leather, cut corners by sourcing thinner lacing. This is why you will see a lot of gloves with broken lacing after a short use.
