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I got left-handed scissors for the first time about a year ago, and holy shit, the urge to cut everything.
The fact that scissors don’t hurt my hand and make it cramp for some stupid reason.
The fact that I can just glide through gift-wrap like it was paper instead of something that tears and shatters and shreds and looks ugly no matter how hard I work…
If you’re left-handed and you think left-handed scissors are a meme, go and spend the $14 that it costs for a pair of left-handed scissors and report back and tell me that that shit is not life-changing.
Left-handed scissors will make a left-handed person feel like they have been being betrayed and deceived and lied to their entire fucking life.
And you can lend them to right handed people for them to understand your pain. (Handle first or blade first, depending on the person)
When our child started cutting, we bought her left handed scissors so that she had both at had and could try it out. Her left handed dad - who grew up in a country which had no left handed things - wasn’t able to use the scissors. He can also not use a left handed guitar, he has played like a righty his whole life because a left handed guitar was unaffordable and “you need two hands to play the guitar anyway, duh”.
Anyway, she’s developing into a lefty, but no one is touching the scissors.
I need these in my life ffs being a lefty is a pain at times
I finally bought left-handed scissors at the ripe old age of 35. It’s amazing once you adjust to it. But you have to unlearn everything first. The “looking under to see where I cut” pose. The awkward painful reverse-grip to force the blades together. The fact that ergo handles are actually more comfortable than symmetric ones and not infinitely more painful.
Same vibe
That reminds me of hyperbole and a half. Thank you.
Wow, I really thought most scissors were practically ambidextrous. What makes them chiral enough to limit usage?
Hold them left-handed and you can’t see the point where the blades are cutting paper. You have to guess. Makes it harder to do a neat job.
When you squeeze the handles the blades press together. Using the wrong hand for most scissors it produces a small gap that prevents them from cutting the paper. It’ll just pinch it.
Try it, then try cutting again with the correct hand for your scissors. Odds are your scissors are not ambidextrous but you just never had a reason to discover this.
wouldn’t a more rigid and tighter pivot pin prevent this?
if so, I guess I don’t have a pair of scissors shitty enough for this to be a problem. I first tried one of my good scissors with both hands to see how it went, no discernible difference with left or right hand despite the scissors being ergonomically molded for right hand use. so I tried my pair of $2 scissors that have a noticeably loose pin and no handed molding on the grips, and I’m struggling to decide if the offhand use was actually worse by a couple percent or if it’s just placebo lol
You know how you can kind of pull the handles a certain way to make bad scissors work? Using them in the wrong hand is like the opposite of that. As you observed it’s less of an issue with decent scissors.
They’re crossed the other way around. Ambidextrous scissors do not exist
They actually do, tend to be advertised as such. Example
They are advertised as such, but the advertisement is a lie.
These are still right-handed. The blades need to be crossed the other way for left-handed scissors. Making an ambidextrous scissor is physically impossible.
any product examples that aren’t Amazon crap?
Amazon product descriptions matching the actual function of the product is kind of rare
Bigger ones have shaped thumb holes, they dont work for lefties. And the ergo handles do help with fatigue if you are cutting a lot.
There’s also the issue of the cut material on the left being fed against your fingers/hand (vs. under) as you cut longer pieces causing your cut to be crooked.
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Be afraid, standard printer paper. Be very afraid.
100+ years ago when I was in elementary school I just used the lefty scissors even though I’m right handed because all the righty ones were fucked up from being used by a bunch of shitty unruly children that can only ruin stuff and there was only one real lefty in the grade and two in the whole school. If you don’t have some kind of condition it really isn’t that hard to just train your motor skills. I went to school with someone who was lefty but wrote right handed just to not get the smudge. Years later I worked with another one. Actually I’ve even used both types of scissors wrong handed in commit once you start or already holding something in the other hand scenarios. Its janky and kinda shit but you can do it with enough stats in dex or a buff item or something idk…
