“First three hours, every hood feels fine. Hour eight, you find out which ones lied.”
Every hood claims lightweight. After hour 8 you find out which ones lied.
The Phantom is 14 ounces. The Pro is 13. Most hoods run over a pound — some closer to two. You won’t feel that at hour two. By hour eight your neck has already done the math.
Three reasons your neck picks this hood
Fourteen ounces. Thirteen on the Pro.
Not a marketing word — a number, off a scale. Go weigh what’s in your truck right now. Most hoods run over a pound, some closer to two. The Phantom is 14 ounces. The Pro is 13. That’s roughly a third lighter than the carbon-fiber sugar scoop most guys already treat as the light one.
Balanced, so it doesn’t pull.
Weight is half of it. Where the weight sits is the other half. The Phantom spreads it across your head instead of hanging it off the front, so it isn’t quietly dragging your chin toward your chest for ten hours. That is the whole difference between hour two and hour eight.
The window sits close to your face.
A closer window means a sharper view of the puddle and more of it in your peripheral, so you’re not craning forward to see what you’re doing. Your neck makes that move ten thousand times a year. We made it a shorter move. The chop length is tested the same way: long enough to cover you, short enough that it doesn’t hit your chest when you look down.
We put it on a scale with the camera running.
Nobody’s neck knows what a hood costs. It knows what it weighs. So here is the number, live, and here is what it’s up against.
Roughly a third lighter than the carbon-fiber sugar scoop most guys call the light one — and it doesn’t chop you in the throat when you look down.
“Amazing hood, light, solid build, comfortable. Doesn’t karate chop you in the throat like a sugar scoop. Should have ordered it sooner”— Michael M. · verified Loox review
“Really solid welding hood, yet very light. Leather is thick and firm.”
Joel E. · verified Loox review
“I love it it’s really light, it’s really comfortable. It’s great😎”
Fernando F. · verified Loox review
“very nice and light hood 1 of 1.”
Jeanpaul R. · verified Loox reviewThe lighter hood is the Pro. That’s backwards, and it’s the point.
You’d think more coverage means more weight. On the Pro it’s the opposite. The Pro adds leather across the bottom — and that leather replaces heavier shell material. More spark coverage for stick and overhead, and a full ounce less hood. Thirteen ounces.
Which is why, when we put a kit together, we built it on the Pro. Only the Pro. You just spent four minutes agreeing that the lighter, balanced hood wins the back half of the shift — the Pro is that hood.
Everything the Pro needs, in one box.
- HoodPhantom Pro. 13 oz. Leather top and bottom.
- LensAn auto-darkening lens, matched to the hood so you’re not sourcing one separately.
- GlovesRedLine 300 gloves — on us. Added free with the kit.
Just want the hood on its own? That’s fine too — browse the Phantom lineup.
The Phantom hood is built here.
On every hood.
Ship it in, we repair it free and ship it back. You cover the shipping in.