You can pick these up for $8.99 on sale. The apron is really thick and there's no chance of getting burned by anything hot through it. The gloves are what you'd expect, mine have a larger than normal seam in one of them but it doesn't make them unusable or anything. Finally, the welding rod holder is pretty useless. In the picture they have plastic filler in there and that's about all that's going to work, the holder is way too short for TIG filler, probably would work alright for stick welding filler though.