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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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Hi, Am looking for a ‘normal’ klefthanded diary – I have one of the orange covered ones that are for sale for home use. But I really need a standard day to a page type I can use at work.
Any ideas??
You used to do small diaries many years ago i recall, but just seems like you onlu offer the ‘fun’ ones now
Thanks
Dave
I just wondered if screw top bottles are considered to be right handed because of the right handed threading in the neck where the lid screws on or if they are considered “generic” items that lack any handedness. Normal screw top containers are sometimes easier to open with the left hand if they are on tight as a counter clockwise motion is required with that being the natural motion for the left hand to use. However, when putting the lid on a motion is used that is more natural for the right hand.
I am looking for a left handed address book
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My husband has a left handed watch which he loves and promotes at every opportunity and a left handed clock but I am desparate to source a left handed pocket watch for him. I have approached our local jeweller who has made jewellery for us for years and our local watch maker/repairer but neither can help. I would be so grateful if you could put me in touch with someone who could make this for me (and others?).
I need an A4 size (UK) Diary with a page for each date.Any ideas? The diary you are offering at present is not quite right for me.It needs to be kept on my desk,but I have a lot of day to day tasks to do.Thanks
Me too!!
I can’t believe that a left handed camera has not been manufactured! My right hand is nigh on useless due to having Multiple Sclerosis, but i am also left handed. If manufactured it would be worth its weight in gold!So come on all manufactures of camera’s please look into it?
hi, tiling trowels are hand specific. any chance?
I would like some left handed pinking shears, try as I might I cannot use right handed ones. I thought you used to supply them, will you be doing so again?
Why can’t you buy a left handed watch, not a backward watch, just a standard wrist watch with the winder next to the 9.
So true. Honesty and eevrythnig recognized.
I would like to have a Nail scissors in leather case (L/R) but cannot find out how to buy it, not any put it in basket button?
Since all sewing machines are left handed, how do I get or do they make, right handed? I had a stroke and it is very hard to reach the turn wheel wiyh my right hand. marilyn
My Left-Hander’s Calendar says that there is a book designed specifically for left-handed childred? The Left-Handed Backward Book by Kelly Kinsolving and Jann Dunham Maser, it opens from left to right and incorporates counting and colorful illustrations. I can’t find it anywhere. Any suggestions?
looking for cursive instructional dvd for left handed. Something similar to “It’s the Write Time” as seen on US tv.
How come you can’t find left handed watches, not backward watches, but a standard watch with the crown on the other side?
I was just wondering if you knew of children’s scissors that made different cutting shapes; like zig-zags, ripples, waves etc. My 5 year old daughter is left-handed and really wants to use the scissors her sister has, but really struggles because they’re right-handed. I would really appreciate any advice you could give. Thanks.
Anyone seen left handed vernier calipers?
i have for many years been cleaning my dentures with a brush that curves the wrong way. anyone know of a left handed version?
So true. Honesty and everything roegcnzied.
I am looking for a left-handed pouring ladle so that when I make jam I can pour into the jars without getting into a sticky mess. You mention ladles on your website, but I can’t find one in the shop. The ladle would need to be elongated to the left with a really good pouring lip.
You used to sell Left handed pinking shears and you use a picture of them on your dressmaking scissors page – but they can’t be bought anymore. Will they be coming back? Can you bring them back please? Most things are adaptable with practice but not scissors and as a keen seamstress this is something that is missing from my toolbox.
thanks
‘fraid i am asking the same old question, but can’t see any replies, so do forgive me!
reasonably priced digital camera for LH son mad on photography! any suggestions where to purchase such a thing?
hope to hear
cheers,
les williams
People have already requested things i would be interested in e.g. cameras, tape measures. I have just joined a photography club and have found it impossible to use a hand held right-handed mount cutter to frame my photos – so I would love to see a left-handed one on the market.
Hi,
Can you help me, I do a lot of modelmaking, ie scale model galleons etc. For a long time now I have been looking for sets of l/h wood files but everywhere I look I cannot find any model shops that stock l/handed small wood files. Now if I look up american modellins shops etc, lo and behold there are L/handed files of all sorts. I dont want to have to send to america for my supplies as it takes a long time, and you have to pay import taxes etc. Can you help me.
much obliged
Don
When are you getting more handiwriter with dolphin attached in?
Should be with us by end of November 2010 latest. Will do a Tweet when they come in – follow LeftHandersClub at http://www.twitter.com to see it.
Can I ask about a left handed digital camera? I can see that a few people have already contacted you about this but I can’t see the responses.
Left handed pinking shears PLEASE!!! Need them for Birthday present. Anyhone???
I would like to have a measuring cup where the English units (cups, pints, etc.) are facing me when I’m holding it in my left hand.
After another frustrating round with my electric mixer, I am wondering if a left-handed version exists. Also, the idea of a left-handing ruler/cutting board would be valuable for LH needleworkers. I love the idea of a left-handed camera, hacksaw, and other tools including the computer.
Keep up the great work.
Left handed spiral notebooks A-4, UK – college ruled preferred. I have located several from companies in the USA and have purchased them in the past. They are fantastic – especailly for taking notes in high school and college courses. Now my son is in school in the UK with a different paper size and hole punch. He really would like lefty spirals but I can’t seem to find anyone in the UK that offers lefty notebooks. Any suggestions? (I’m actually shocked that Anything Left-Handed here in the USA does not offer lefty spirals on their web site???)
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’d love a left-handed scale ruler too! I design and sell kitchens and bathrooms, and use 1-to-20 and 1-to-50 scales quite a lot when drawing or reading architectural plans.
If I’m honest I rarely have any problems using the usual right-hand oriented items like pencil sharpeners and tin openers, but the ruler thing does bug me!
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
Hi
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.
thanks
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…
Hi
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..
Yes, Colette, I know it would be cheaper, but I do not find it easier. I find turning the “wrong” way with my left hand easier than the “right” way with the right hand! As my household is 75% left-handed (me & my 2 kids) I think it is worth the investment
BTW: always gives me a laugh when I give my left-handed corkscrew to right-handed friends & ask them to “open that bottle quickly” while I pretend to be bus (but watch) – the looks of confusion… great fun! Fellow lefties – try it out!
This makes evretyinhg so completely painless.
…still waiting for an answer on this one – lefty food mill? Please …
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
Hello!
I wanted to let you know that, my friends have invented a left handed notebook,if
you wanted to get them I can help you
I am living in Canada and I am going to sell them here,let me know if you are interested on them.
Thank you,
Ali
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 …