YES We did!

[Not Afraid]

I have never heard of the brand Gingher before both Alex and GD mentioned it. Somehow, this seems very wrong.

[blueerica]

J sez: I am glad I have learned to shoot right-handed, now I don't have to take left-handed scissors to a knife fight. I hate you wrongies!

Lefties will rule the world! Obama!

[Alex]

My mom was working the garment industry in Portland for most of my childhood and did a lot of work at home. We had up for four industrial sewing machines in the home at a time (my step-father was also an industrial sewing machine mechanic). So fabric scissors I knew.

And home sewing machines seem twee to me.

[blueerica]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

CP and I recently had a deep conversation about scissors, and the fact that righties simply CANNOT appreciate the luxury of having a quality pair of scissors at hand.

I got to thinking about this last night, and I think some righties can, or at least I do. I have memories of bad scissors growing up. I adore good scissors today. I have three pairs of quality (comfy for both-handed people) scissors regularly available in my abode. At work, I have the 'standard issue' pair of scissors and it's no fun to cut things at the office.

Then again, I do a lot of stuff "leftie" (eat, skateboard, snowboard). Maybe I'm just more sympathetic to the cause.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I was the one who purchased all the new supplies for the new library a while back. I took a stance and purchased really nice scissors for the office. I thank myself every time I pick up a pair.

I've also been known to throw out bad pairs of scissors that have been lingering around the office probably since I was in grade school. Eff bad scissors!

[flippyshark]

Wow - from the thrill of a new President to impassioned discussion of scissors in one mind-sizzling thread. Is there another community like LoT out there?

[BarTopDancer]

Just say NO to bad scissors and other crappy office supplies.

Life is to short to write with crappy pens.

[alphabassettgrrl]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

Life is to short to write with crappy pens.

Amen to that! I've tried to "use up" the sucky pens here but I've finally decided it's not worth it. Toss 'em. I keep some ballpoints, as my honey disagrees with me what a "quality" pen means, but that's ok. I don't need to keep many of those.

[blueerica]

Originally Posted by Alex

GD: And I don't understand why it has to be. We have a pair of kitchen shears that work wonderfully with either hand. Why must paper scissors be handed (I must admit I've never cared enough to learn the engineering). Ah the memories of childhood and trying to use right-handed scissors upside down with my thumb painfully squeezed into the too-narrow finger hole.

I'm home, sick, and probably a little delusional at the moment. But I wonder if it has anything to do with where the axle is. My kitchen, fabric, finer shears have their axle (not even sure if I'm using the right term) toward the middle, or at least further away from a handle, whereas the others are close to where the hands are?

Oh, this may require some looking up on my part.

It's probably just hand-ism.

ETA: Found this little video/infomercial from anythingleft-handed.co.uk. And, one manufacturer says that after years of using right-handed scissors, it takes a lot of time for lefties to truly use a left-handed scissors because they have to unlearn a motion they took so much time to learn in the first place.


OK, I'm done thinking about scissors. I think I am going back to bed.

ETA 2: I should have added above that they say there's no such thing as a universal pair of scissors.

[Ghoulish Delight]

If you compare left handed scissors to right, they're flipped. The top blade passes on the outside (when held in the hand it's designed for) of the bottom blade. If you use the wrong hand, the lateral force exerted by your fingers as you squeeze will cause the blades to want to separate.

On a really well put together pair, that really won't matter and you can use it with either hand since the joint is probably solid enough that the slight lateral force isn't enough to really separate the blades any. But that still leaves one other disadvantage. If you're using righty scissors with your left hand, the top blade will be on the inside, obscuring your line of sight, so you won't be able to see exactly what you're cutting.

I think way too much about scissors apparentyl