Thread: Left Handers Day.

Oooooh, thanks Issa, I'm going to join as well.

For those interested, here's the website:

Left Handers Day, August 13th - Official Site #lefthandersday

hi there! nice one, i did not know it, happy st. left handers day!!

Did you notice how many of the problems Americans have don't seem to be a problem here in Oz? We all head left first when we enter the T&WWW Shows, keep to our left when we kiss, drive, walk up and down stairs and along pathways, etc. (Well mostly all of us; some people are just unco...or have thought about it a bit; this means you Liz, Jim and Irene and the stallholders who advise us to travel down the right hand side of the Show first in order to miss the crowds: DON'T!, or you'll be getting in my way )

It's not to do with left or right handedness, it's because of the side of the road we drive on! Think about it for a while...do you agree with me? Peter Fitzsimmons wrote about some of this in one of his early books, "Little Theories on Life" I think it is called.


I woodturn right handed (both hands actually but prefer right handed and I teach my students to turn right handed), can not use a mouse on the left hand side of a computer keyboard, use the drop saw with my right hand and so on, ad infinitum. Planing timber left handed is advantageous as I do not have my right hip pushed up against the workbenches nor am I reaching over the corner when planing longer lengths. I now acknowledge that the majority of my students can struggle initially when introduced to planing due to this reason. Maybe a left hander specified that vices should be mounted towards the left hand sides of benches (think about how long vices have been mounted on the left and think about changing it on your bench if you are a poor right hander...)

My only concessions to left handedness are when bowling in cricket (batting in cricket, playing golf or baseball is right handed), swinging a racquet in tennis, racqetball, etc., throwing all manner of things (tantrums can be of either persuasion.) My handwriting can only be left handed so when working on the blackboard/whiteboard, I write virtually everything in capitals in order to hold the chalk/marker a bit further back in order to prevent smudging what I have just written. The kids are confused with what should be in capitals but at least they can easily read my writing!

I only wish that I could find a good pair of left handed scissors.


From a happy left hander

how was left-handed day? actually i can immagine how tough it has to be for a not right-handed person, not only in woodworking

I only wish that I could find a good pair of left handed scissors

Try Spotlight, I got a good pair from there

I'm not left handed but my 3 children (now all adults) were all natural left-handers.

My thought on this is that left handers are the only ones in their right minds.

Here is a couple of links for lefties:

Welcome to Leftys Marayong NSW

Lefthanded - Left Handed Products - Large Selection! Ringwood Vic

Both have a large and varied range of LH scissors and heaps of other stuff.

Me... I'm as right handed as they come, but I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous. Boom-boom.

Cheers - Neil

I am one of those funny lefties. I do every thing except golf, cricket left handed. On those two I am right handed. I also have a brother the exact opposite.