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Which SAK tools are exclusively for right-handed use?

it Offline shadowrider

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Which SAK tools are exclusively for right-handed use?
on: December 24, 2017, 03:13:31 PM
Hey folks,
I've been wondering if there are some tools and implement in SAKs that would be impossible or unconfortable to use with your left hand.
I recall Wenger doing a line of left-handed knives in the past, where most tools had the nail nick on the opposite side, and some were even built "simmetrically". The corkscrew, for example, was coiled up the other way round.

While I don't see a big problem in having to use a regular corkscrew with the left hand (you just have to turn your hand the other way to stick the cork in), I find for example the can opener too impractical to use left-handedly.
The fish scaler is another right-hand only tool (at least the Wenger one, which is the only one I have), due to the way the tool is concave on one side only.

Any other left-handed fellow here that has been considering this?


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Re: Which SAK tools are exclusively for right-handed use?
Reply #1 on: December 24, 2017, 03:19:58 PM
I’d like to know too being left-handed as well
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Re: Which SAK tools are exclusively for right-handed use?
Reply #2 on: December 24, 2017, 03:35:34 PM
The scissors are right-handed, but you probably know that already.  :think:
Interestingly, the Spirit scissors are left-handed.


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Re: Which SAK tools are exclusively for right-handed use?
Reply #3 on: December 24, 2017, 09:22:35 PM
One-hand opening and closing is easier with the right hand on the 130mm New Rangers
and with the left hand on 111mm SAKs
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Re: Which SAK tools are exclusively for right-handed use?
Reply #4 on: December 24, 2017, 11:40:55 PM
One-hand opening and closing is easier with the right hand on the 130mm New Rangers
and with the left hand on 111mm SAKs

The 111mm OHO left-handed is a beautiful gift for lefties. The liner lock is a simple thing to disengage left-handed. It's actually really un-fun for righties, I'd bet.

Can openers, yup. I do all my can opener testing right handed. I hadn't even considered that but now that i think back, I did TRY can opening left handed, and it was terrible.

Scissors... KIND of right-handed. A really GOOD pair of scissors is as good left handed as right. It all matters about the tolerance of the scissors. the cheaper/worse the scissors, the worse they get lefthanded. I generally have no problem with Leatherman/Victorinox scissors left-handed. When I do tool testing, I score the scissors both left and right handed.

I have held a few plier type MTs where tools dig into your palm if held in one hand and NOT if held in the other, but that's a really random thing. I personally think Swiss Army Knives with corkscrews are more comfortable in the left hand for prolonged use. For Lefthanded users, the corkscrew is not against the palm.

I SEEM to recall the OHO bump on the Wave's blades bites into the hand/palm lefthanded, but it's out in the car, and I'm warm and lazy and don't want to go get it to check right now.
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Re: Which SAK tools are exclusively for right-handed use?
Reply #5 on: December 25, 2017, 01:45:11 AM
Definitely the can opener and scissors. The Wenger lefties also had all the tools reversed, right down to the nail nicks and reverse wound corkscrew. This is a left handed salute, btw >> :salute:


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Re: Which SAK tools are exclusively for right-handed use?
Reply #6 on: December 26, 2017, 06:24:45 PM
Thanks for the replies, folks!  :cheers:
I've never considered scissors... I always thought that the only issue for left handed use of (full size) scissors was the handle shape, but on that Wenger lefty SAK it looks like the blades position is reversed . Why is that?


 

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