Power Tools and being Left Handed

[Ed in Tampa]

Chuck I totally forgot about scissors.

I can remember in 1st grade art what a struggle it was to cut out shapes in paper and felt. All the other kids were moving right along. It took a bit for the teacher to figure out why I was having so much trouble. I quickly learned to use my right hand and haven't thought about it since then.

Lefties tend to be more ambidextrous out of necessity.

Dave

I'm ambidextrous and I'm forever using the wrong hand to cut with scissors.
I have left and right scissors. If I pick them up with my right hand I usually pick up the left handed scissors and if I pick them up with my left hand I usually grab the right handed pair.

I solved the problem I use a machete

[JPG]

I'm ambidextrous and I'm forever using the wrong hand to cut with scissors.
I have left and right scissors. If I pick them up with my right hand I usually pick up the left handed scissors and if I pick them up with my left hand I usually grab the right handed pair.

I solved the problem I use a machete

Which hand did you use it on?:D

[Ed in Tampa]

Which hand did you use it on?:D

By then I was ticked off so I used both. Wasn't pretty but it worked.
Scared the willies out of neighbor kids so they stay from me so it was win win.

[JPG]

Maybe I need to rephrase the question - Which hand did you use with the machete to cut the other hand off?

[judaspre1982]

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[fjimp]

So this somewhat ambidextrous Lefty is sitting here laughing himself into hysterics. Yeah I remember in first grade a teacher who seemed to take great delight in whacking my left hand every time she saw me attempting to write with it. Then when I broke my left wrist (no she didn't have a hand in that accident) she took great delight in my being force to write with the right hand. Imagine her shock a year later when in second grade I broke the right hand and returned to using the left hand. Then there was the researcher my wife worked for who had interesting theories on left versus right handed people. Can you begin to imagine how badly I screwed up up his research when he discovered I can do most anything equally as well with either hand.

As to the stupid safety switches used by manufactures of many newer model tools. Where do these idiots get the notion that a clumsy safety switch creates a safe environment?! Lets face the facts those darned things as are designed to make the tools last longer because no one can turn them on, thus they never get used.

Perhaps we need to make a rather exhaustive list of tool types, manufacturer name and model of tool so we can all carry them with us as we visit tool vendors in order to show them our disgust and allow them to watch our dust as we leave waiving our dollars in the air.

[Ed in Tampa]

Maybe I need to rephrase the question - Which hand did you use with the machete to cut the other hand off?

You have been watch Hannibal where old Lector cut off his hand.
Not me I just used the Machete to hack up what I was trying to cut nicely with my scissors.

I cracked up listening to Fjimp tell of his teacher. I drove mine crazy. One day right handed next day left, I would flip back and forth all the time.

I had one teacher insist on my writing right handed and watched my every move to make sure I did. So I learned to write right handed but made it look like left handed writing and learned to write with my left hand but make it look like right handed writing. She finally had a conference with my parents and they decided I should write right handed.

Then I had the same series of arm breaks as you. First my left arm, she was joyous, then my right arm and she was destroyed but resigned herself to me writing left handed. Then in her finest hour I came to school with my left arm in its second cast. She was ready to sing when I showed her I could still write left handed with the cast on. Poor woman retired after that year of school.

[JPG]

My sheet metal shears are color coded, red for left hand , green for right hand.
Maybe try this before you break out the machete:D

Dave

I thought that had to do with the direction a curve could be cut, not which hand you use to power it! Jaws are reversed.

Scissors are reversed, but to fit hands(1) and allow natural squeezing motion to pull the scissor halves together while cutting(2).

Ever seen a left handed crescent or monkey wrench? Left handed screwdriver?:D

Oh! Left handed putty knife?

[fjimp]

I thought that had to do with the direction a curve could be cut, not which hand you use to power it! Jaws are reversed.

Scissors are reversed, but to fit hands(1) and allow natural squeezing motion to pull the scissor halves together while cutting(2).

Ever seen a left handed crescent or monkey wrench? Left handed screwdriver?:D

Oh! Left handed putty knife?

Well thank you for clarifying that I was right. I own the whole set. Well I once owned the set. Over time different sets of colored handles have been "borrowed" never to be seen again. Fjimp

[JPG]

Well thank you for clarifying that I was right. I own the whole set. Well I once owned the set. Over time different sets of colored handles have been "borrowed" never to be seen again. Fjimp

Right?

I thought you said you were ambisinistrous!:D(opposite of ambidextrous) Now a lefty would be need two left hands to be equally adept with both hands. Us right handers need two right hands.

Leftys lose again!:mad: Ambisinistrous means 'clumsy' with both hands!:(

Latin dextr... means right
........sinist... means left