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Cutting boardsI’ve been meaning to ask if you have ever considered left-handed cutting boards? I do quite a lot of patchwork & the most popular suppliers of materials looked at me as if I was mad when I enquired at a large patchwork event. They told me just to turn the board around! This doesn’t work as one side is shown in inches & the other in centimetres, both going from left to right. (I hope this makes sense – you might like to try it out on an old envelope!). I usually just subtract e.g. 18″ – 7″ = 11″, but it would be much easier with a left-handed board! I would imagine other left-handed quilters & craftspeople would be glad of this too. |
We have not come across anything like this – we had to have our own left-handed rulers made with the scales going form right to left and I guess this is something that would need to be custom-made as well. This normally requires a large volume (minimum for our rulers is 2,000 of each size at a time) so is not easy for specialist products like your cutting board.
We’ll keep a look out and if anyone knows of a source for these please add a comment to this page. |
HacksawRight-handed full size hacksaws (not the puny junior hacksaw types) have the blade flush to the left and the frame to the right, so the right-handed person can make a flush cut with the right hand. A left-handed hacksaw naturally would be a mirror image with the blade flush to the right. I can’t find one anywhere. Do you have a tool supplier who would make a left-handed hacksaw? |
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Any chance of supplying a nurses watch with the backwards face? I already wear the watch but can’t wear it for work.
How about Power tools, a table saw, drill, circular saw etc, all are for right handers. Any suggestions, or adaptions?
I’m a geologist and to produce engineering drawings I require a scale ruler. Although you can get left-handed regular rulers I have never been able to find a left-handed scale ruler (a triangular one e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architect%27s_scale). Many of my drawings require vertical measuring so it’s annoying using a ‘right-handed ruler’ because I need to re-orientate the page to see what I’m doing.
Hope you can help! Thanks!
I am looking for soup ladle. Me and my mother are really clumsy and need to concentrate a lot with a RH-one.
I am looking for a conference folder, similar to item 508L but in the (American) size 5″x8″. I have the larger size but something smaller would be really handy for me sometimes. Thank you.
I am looking for anything left-handed for my 3 year old. Does anyone stock digital camera, cutlery and cooking tools for children?
I am curently looking for a left handed padlock. is there such a thing available? all padlocks I have come across all are made for the right handed person. They are tremendously awkward for me, being left handed. Thanks.
hi, was wondering if there is anywhere i can get left handed cutlery for my daughter. my sister was able to get some that curved round but this was about 7 years ago and i am finding it difficult to find any. thanks
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Stabilo seem to be doing a new left handed propelling pencil with a 1.4mm lead-but I cannot find selling them yet. Do you plan to stock these? The one with the thicker lead is good but does look messy when doing maths. Also, it is very hard to get the black ink cartridges for the stabilo s’move pens. My daughter’s school prefers all work to be completed in black.Again, there seem to be different coloured ink cartridges referred to on the stabilo website.
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i know its quite a specialist subject, but im a dog groomer learning to cut with right handed scissors with my left hand, this damages the blades and they are so expensive to sharpen or replace! there are also stripping knives that i need to do hand stripping with. could you put some lefty- pet care items on this site please? i would be ever so greatful! =]
I’d like to get some Victorinox general purpose scissors 130mm and I see you have the 160mm model. Could you provide them?
I am having considerable difficulty in finding left handed (normal) table knives for my 7 year old boy. I have seen some steak knives on offer but they always seem to be out of stock !
I am a 43 year old lefty… Just teach him to use it right handed and he will, its amazing how versatile he will become.. You dont need left handed things you just use to learn the other way around and …. its becomes an advantage
I use right handed scissors perfectly, I play the guitar right handed… I even have good hand writing because my mum taught me how to hold the pen and not smudge..
its not a problem at all.. just keep teaching…
Dont be caught up in needing to buy left handed things…Its not necessary and it costs a fortune..
I have a LH child as well as RH child… and I dont treat them any differently , amazingly the LH one is just as good as the RH at everything, but has the benefit of also being ambibex…
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Recently borrowed a neighbour’s food mill, but as a lefty I found it didn’t work, till I realised I was turning it the “wrong” (lefty) way. Any chance of a left-handed food-mill (for sieving pips out of fruit puree, etc) ?? Thanks! Lefty-Lisa
Lisa as a fellow lefty ,just use your right hand and you will be amazed how quickly it just becomes normal and then you wont need to buy another one.. The LH mechandise is just a con..It would be nice but its so expensive..
I”m looking for a left-handed digital camera for use by a friend who has had a stroke. He’s tried the trick of turning the camera upside down and using his left thumb but finds this to be very awkward and has dropped and damaged his last digital camera, (yes of course he should have used the wrist strap).
He has to concentate so hard when using the camera upside down that he isn’t able to get any decent pictures quickly. He wants to be able to react quickly and get the spontaneous snaps that the other 90% take for granted so is desperate to find a lefty.
I too am looking for a left-handed chef’s knife. I’ve been to several chef supply sites, but they don’t offer this.
Fishing reels
Many fixed spool reels are advertised as being ambidextrous for right or lefthanded people.
For technical reasons a true left handed reel flier should rotate anti-clockwise when viewed from the front. None of the so called ambidextrous reels do.
Years ago manufacturers provided separate models for left and right handed use.
There are a lot of left handed fishermen in the uk and abroad. I am sure there is a market for them Can the club make some enquiries of manufacturers for lefties reels
I would need a left handed FLAT and CUT AT AN ANGLE wooden spoon for cooking. The ones available are slightly curved and cut at an angle only possible to use with a right hand. I’ve never came across one for left handed.
Does it exist?
Can you obain a lefthanded hockey stick for a schoolgirl in Secondary school does such a thing exist, for playing outside on grass etc
As I have always understood it you can not plan international hockey – left handed – therefore it would be extremely unlikely that left handed hockey sticks were available. in my school day because i knew i was not allowed to play left handed at international level i refused to play the sport in case i became that good and then would be penalised as would be forced to play with a right handed stick.
however, in roller hockey the hockey stickes are for playing on either face/side – I know this as i went on to play the sport. I believe ice hockey is the same and therefore these two sports do not have a negative on being left handed.
Could you get left handed notebooks (wide ruled, 1 subject)? My husband and both our sons are all left handed. Our sons would really benefit from these notebooks in school. My eldest has begun writing on the back of his notebook paper so his wrist does not have to rest on the spiral binding. I’m afraid that his teachers are going to forget to look on the back and miss his assignments. Thanks.
if you are from canada or the US, you can order a selection of lefty notebooks with the spiral on the correct side from http://www.leftyslefthanded.com
As a lefty I tired this , but the tutor got confused and turned it upside down and thought I had written at the back anyway.. As a lefty you just have to get used to it and , from experience its not a problem
My grandson must use a 3 ring loose leaf binder for school. As he is left handed this presents a problem. Are left handed binders available? Thank you.
I was just thinking, that wouldn’t it be better if the dates for the left-handed calendar etc were on the side of the page next to the middle, so that we could see more easily where we are filling in information?
Any such thing as a left-handed sewing machine?
Hey,
Sewing Machines already are left handed, they were invented by a lefty which is why the needle is on the left not the right.
So any sewing machine is a left handed sewing machine.
Hi!
Only a few years’ ago when your store in London was still in existence, a friend of mine purchased me a tiny left-hander’s address book. I do not see this item in your online catalog. How can I get a new one?
Regards,
Does any manufacturer anywhere currently make left-handed chainsaws? I am a Forestry student and have been told by my Health and Safety tutor that such chainsaws used to be available in the 1980s and 90s but that he has not seen one for many years. The college does not have one and I have not been able to find them advertised on the net.
I like the idea of a left handed hacksaw. My hubby would really benefit from it
Is it possible to source a large chefs knife without serated edges. I really like the cooks knife but I would like one without the serated edge
I’d love also to ask:What about a left handed computer laptop and a lefthanded computer keyboard?
you can get a left handed keyboard on the web but not at this site
Loved the suggestion re. a LH cutting board.
I’d love to ask: how about a left handed camera?
Although I grew up in a right handed world, it would be so helpful to take pictures/change focus/etc etc with my left hand …