A curse upon all right handers . L:O:L

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Kevin the grey

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I am sure most of us have used a modern metal bow saw ? Ten bucks at the local hardware . Good tool when lots of logs need to be cut and precision is not uppermost in your needs . Fire wood, posts and similar items .

I am a true lefty . When I take a bow saw that has been used by a right handed freak I find the blade has had a bias built into it through useage and perhaps a natural tendency for the blade to pull to the side that influences it the most . I have found that a saw used by a right hander will bind on my evil left handed approach . As a control I may say this is not evident in a new saw or a saw well used by me . It may be that a judicious tweaking of the blade before use would train it back into a more neutral bias . As the new set is proabably in the teeth as much as the blade body that may take some doing . What do you righties think . Please take it easy on me . I am left handed after all . L:O:L
 
Buy new blades. Stay sinister, and don't let right handed people touch your saw. It is YOUR saw. There are many like it, but that one is yours! Or try a buck saw that can be handled from either side.
 
Bumppo said:
Buy new blades. Stay sinister, and don't let right handed people touch your saw. It is YOUR saw. There are many like it, but that one is yours! Or try a buck saw that can be handled from either side.
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The darn blades cost almost as much as the saw . A right handed conspiracy no doubt . I won,t buy a buck saw as they are now ten bucks a saw . It is a grass roots protest to get them to lower it to the advertised price . L:O:L

Did you know ? I can,t use left handed scissors ? Righties have me so screwed up my own equipment feels foreign to me . The upside of it is I can take crappy right handed scissors that righties can,t use and they work just fine . Ha their terrible bias towards whats left in the world has been thrown in their face . And they won,t even see it coming from the left side . L:O:L
 
If you flip the blade end to end wouldn't that reverse the bias in the blade? I am imagining some sort of twist imparted to the blade. My dad and son are both lefties.
 
structuralrik said:
If you flip the blade end to end wouldn't that reverse the bias in the blade? I am imagining some sort of twist imparted to the blade. My dad and son are both lefties.
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What a great innovative reply . Unfortunately a bow saw cuts on the push and not the pull . If I changed blade direction I would have to call it a pull saw . There is a copyright on the pull saw name . No biggie right ? You should have seen what the buck saw company said when I asked them to change their name to the ten buck saw . L:O:L

O:K: so its a real bad joke . I don,t know what would happen if we changed blade direction . If it cuts in only one direction it might not work as well on the pull .
B:T:W: If your dad and son are left handed then you are proabably a closet lefty that was suppressed at birth . If someone in your family keeps on putting things in your right hand eventually you will become right handed .
My daughter was born lefty and ex wifey kept on taking things out of her left and putting them in her right .
 
I believe bow saws cut on both strokes so you should be able to flip it around. They usually consist of cutting and raking teeth that are sharpened on both edges. Give it a try.
 
Yes, you are very right, there is a massive, underground movement by righties to put the leftists down. But fear not my superior left-handed brothren, we will overcome!

I can deal with the cutting tools, been doing it for years. My biggest gripe is getting freakin ink all over my hands when I write. That must make me sound like a total smack to all the righties but my leftist comrades will understand.
 
So typical of people who are built backwards to blame people who are built correctly for their woes! My brother has this affliction and for years he complained about bolt action rifles, ergonomic scissors that weren't, and a host of other things. I give him left handed hammers, pencils and screwdrivers every year for Christmas. He learned to write with the paper turned upside down and canted to the side. I think he just needs a pantograph for hooking his left hand to the right one for writing. There is a reason it is called the right hand, you know!

Codger :D
 
Codger just when I thought you were an even handed individual your prejudice surfaces . Lefties have rights too . Oops , I mean rightfully speaking ..... darn...
I guess I beeter quit while I can ? Right ? Augh..................
 
Aww, it's just fun to chide a lefty and vice versa. My bro was able to do things that left me amazed, just because of his dominant handedness. No one right handed can truly imagine what it is like to live in a right handed world, though those of us who grew up with a lefty have a glimmer. Just like no one who is not deaf can understand what it is like to be so. You might imagine it, and you might make a brief list of areas of everyday life it interferes with, but until you experience it....well, I broke my right arm...twice, and not being ambi...I got a taste of that for myself! I did find though that the best way to deal with any inconvenience life can throw at us is to do so with humor.:thumbup:

Codger
 
Kevin,
I know the bowsaw blades are expensive but good bi-metal bandsawblades are not. Since the blades you are using already cut in only one direction, why not try it? I get new blades 3/4"x.035" by 7'9" for $20. At least 6 bowsaw blades there. Not only that I have a few slightly used ones and you can have one for free to try out the Idea.
Del
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I have a friand that is left handed. when we go fishing, he likes the handle of his reel on the right side, and I like mine on the left. (spinning reels) I make it a point to never use his rod and reel, cause I just cant make it work. I agree with some of the others on this one. Get your saw, or saws, and don't let any righties use them. make them get they own saw... see...saw. ;)
 
Codger I couldn,t agree more . Humour is the best medecine . Even opening some screen doors can open up my knuckles . I can use my right hand better than most right handers can use their left . The best fencers are left handed.
Boxers are somwhat mystified by us though that has lessened with modern training .
 
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