left handed scissors

Does anyone know where I can get left handed scissors?

Brian-

Try this link [url=http://thelefthand.com/lefdovmansci.html:7d42b]http://thelefthand.com/lefdovmansci.html[/url:7d42b] The scissors that I use have large finger holes and are straight. They can be used by lefties or righties. Good luck

I'll bite. What's the difference?

Allan

Allan,
Do you suppose it's the same difference as in a left handed monkey wrench?

Allan, tie up a dry fly, all except trimming the hackle and thread at the head.... turn your vise around so you are looking at the back of the fly.
Now, trim the excess at the head. Note the difference in how the scissors reach into the materials. Pay particular interest to the position of the blades, which is now opposite to what it was previously.
It is a small but important thing in fly dressing - much more important in cutting sheet metal, where the 'handedness' of the snips make the offcut rise to the right with right hand snips and rise left with a left-handed pair.
You cannot cut a curve to the left with right-handers. There are also straight snips.

Not everyone has heard of this, I have had some very strange looks in motor spares shops.. assistants checking to see whether it is April 1
Polka dot paint is harder to find.

;?}

Hope that helps,
all the best
Roy

Roy,

I'm not about to try that examination. I'd suggest to LHB to simply 'deal with it'. All the scissors I have are neutral.

Allan

[This message has been edited by tyeflies (edited 07 April 2005).]

Allan,
My wife & youngest daughter are lefties. I NEVER knew it before, but if we all use the same scissors, they are dull & useless in a hurry! I know it seems wierd, but it's true. I never let them use any of my scissors anymore...I hide 'em!!
Mike

lefthandedbrain,

I too am a lefty. I have become ambidextrous because certain tools aren't readily avaialable. So, it's easier to 'learn' to do it righthanded. Having said that, here is a site for left-handed scissors - [url=http://www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk/acatalog/manicure_scissors.html:70a70]http://www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk/acatalog/manicure_scissors.html[/url:70a70]

Okay. I'm an idiot but I just don't see the difference. Someone please explain.

Allan

Allan,

I'm not left handed but I'll attempt to explain. Pick up a pair of scissors. Notice that the blade your thumb operates is away from your palm. Notice that a normal cutting motion tends to push the blades against each other. Now switch to your left hand. Notice that the same motion tends to push the blades away from each other. This is easier to see with a pair that is a little loose. Left handed scissors are the opposite.

Ok lefty's did I get it right?

Jay

Allan,
Like me, you seem reasonable http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/wink.gif ..That's why we can't seem to understand WHY, but I'm tellin' ya, a "leftie" will screw up a regular pair of scissors faster'n we can say "spit"!!!
I think God created lefthanders to punish us righthanders!!
Mike

tyeflies -

Although a left-handed person can use right-handed scissors, left-handed scissors are different in that the blades are reversed.

I would wager that the scissors you have are right-handed. You would have to make an effort to find/buy a left-handed pair.

We left-handers live in a right-handed world and usually just adapt. I have been using righ-handed scissors for so long, I would probably have to learn to use lefties.

- Gary

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And you should try to play baseball with a right handed baseball bat!!!!

2lefthands, that is a cruel challenge
;?}
Roy

I just had to chime in here. I have used right-handed scissors for so very long that now I cannot use left-handed ones. I have simply built up such a strong muscle memory for holding them to where they'll work that it precludes use of left-handed ones.

But I can bat with either a left or right-handed baseball bat.

How many of y'all have left handed folding pocket knives?

Kinda hijacked this thread. Lefthandedbrian, did you find those southpaw scissors?
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[This message has been edited by rrhyne56 (edited 09 April 2005).]

Agree with the scissors issues. Also try using a small butter knife with your left hand - impossible! Also impossible, using your left hand to scrape a pot of chili with a right-handed ladle. It sure is a right- handed world.

Another lefty.



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I fly fish the salt because the voices in my head tell me to...

I found some, thanks everyone.

Boy, Its good to know that there are so many lefties out there. Being one of them, this thread is really enjoyable to read.. been there, done that, being a southpaw also.
I write and use a fork righthanded, because my mother was of the "you shall be right handed" mind when I was growing up. Most everything else is left, except what I have taught myself to do with both. Scissors, leftys, do NOT work for me, the muscles have formed their memory so that only righthanded ones work in my lefthand, as stated before.

Then you get my youngest daughter, ambidextrious to the extreme!! Right, left, it doesn't matter at all. She is known for switching just to see if you are paying attention????

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Wyo-blizzard

Why not try a pair of palming scissors? Fiskars makes a nice one that I use regularly. Being left handed myself I find that the construction of the scissors is moot when using a palming style. [url=http://www.fiskars.com:02843]www.fiskars.com[/url:02843]

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psyfly's post may be the best to come out of this thread.....

I had to pay five time the cost of a regular bodkin to find one that was left handed.

Rusty <><

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if you wanna catch something ya gotta get a hook in the water

check out the cost of a left handed vice ... sheesh

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Mike