Did lefties do something to knife manufacturers?

I've started only buying true lefty knives and if you look there are many options, granted they are gonna be a little more pricey than your average production models...I even have a few extras I might throw up for sale!!


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Roughly 90% of people are right handed. Probably explains it. But, I do think they should offer more knives for lefties, just only in smaller quantities, but nearly every model should have a few lefties made.
 
Over the years I've learned to overcome and adapt in a world mostly geared for right handed people. Since I carry my knives in my pocket and not clipped, it really doesn't bother me whether the knife is a righty or lefty.
But, there is a silver lining to most all things. I get a kick out of handing a Left Handed CRK to a righty and seeing them fumble to use it. :) It's a bitter pill the right handed folks have to swallow.
 
I am a lefty and do almost everything left-handed; however, I have learned to use my right hand a lot because I live in a right-handed world. And for some activities, I actually prefer to use my right hand, like throwing a baseball or opening a folding knife. Since I prefer to open knives with my right hand, I carry them in my right front pocket. Strange thing is that I use knives only with my left hand. So I open a knife with my right hand and then transfer it to my left hand to use. It's weird but works! Even still, would certainly appreciate having more lefty options. I tend to gravitate to ambidextrous knives, which I like. Lockbacks and Spydie holes are awesome!


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I can't stand ambidextrous knives, why are knives either right hand only or ambidextrous ?
It's wrong that left handed people often get left out when designing knives but righties never do .
 
dkb45 said:
There has never really been a better time to be a knife nut. Super high quality knives are now available for less than they have ever been, there are $40 knives with super steels, sub $100 knives are getting ceramic detent and bearings... Technology is at an all time high, and the consumers can reap the benefits. Most consumers that is. Look at all of the new designs not from Kershaw/ZT or Benchmade (Cold Steel gets honorable mention for being possible the most lefty friendly), and there is a common theme of complete lack of lefty clip support. Spyderco is even getting worse about it. Nearly all of the new super high quality Chinese brands don't have a single knife with a lefty clip. Kizer is even getting worse about it after ballooning into the brand that looked the most promising.

I can totally understand with some knives why they are tapped for lefty carry. Milled clips and pockets in the frame are awful to deal with, along with increasing cost more than the minor amount that 2 or 3 small holes would. What I don't understand are the models with simple stamped clips and simple tapped holes for the normal clip position with thought put into ambidextrous opening, such as making the scale have clearance for lefty opening, but they can't tap some holes to make it properly ambidextrous, it's just left as a half thought. The designs were obviously made with us in mind, but a few holes are suddenly insurmountable? I just don't get it.
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I promise that when I start making folders I'll make them lefty friendly. [emoji14]
 
On a related note, any other lefties ambivalent about the LH Sebenzas? Decent framelocks are fairly ambidextrous, and I had no trouble with the standard models, but I couldn't for the life of me handle the LH models. Stockholm syndrome, perhaps?
 
Aren't left-handed people luciferian illuminati members? They already run the world and now they're demanding left-handed knives too? Aren't they all geniuses; can't they just use occult magic to make the clip appear on the other side? This is proof they should repent immediately and maybe things with turn around for them.:-P


Or not:-)
 
Victorinox only had lefties in mind with the OH Sentinel, or any of its OH knives. Only 1 type of lock tailored to lefties; the lockbar needs to be pushed to the opposite end, to the right, to close.

It's all a leftie needs.
 
You know what pisses me off?????? I am also lefty/ambidextrous and ALL of the damn companies make strictly right handed fixed blades. Not one single lefty fixed blade. Every dang fixed blade I have ever handled is a right hander. Sometimes I just use them lefty anyway. Seems to work ok... I guesss...


In all seriouslness I am left handed / right eye dominant so I prefer to throw and shoot righty, eat and write lefty, stand southpaw for when I fight, and use my knives either hand. When I carry my sidearm its righty so my knives are in my left front pocket. No handgun and then my knives go right pocket.
 
I am a Southpaw and I am not bother by this with Knifes except for the lack of left handed sheaths for fixed blades.
 
Emersons are all left hand grind. Drilled and tapped for 25 or thirty bucks.
 
I'm a lefty too how about that.
I get some weird looks when I carry my fixed blades on my left side and it's backwards.
but it don't matter none to me no how.
so I carry my knife backwards, which I don't see no big deal about it you just get used to it I guess.when it comes to a self assisted knife I like it because it cant open in your pocket on your left side.
 
I've done the same as many, started selling off most of my RH knives in favor of dedicated LH models or true ambidextrous (ball bearing/Axis locks and mid/back locks). The RH specific ones in my collection now are getting harder and harder to put up for sale, but it'll happen eventually.
 
Riz! said:
You know what pisses me off?????? I am also lefty/ambidextrous and ALL of the damn companies make strictly right handed fixed blades. Not one single lefty fixed blade. Every dang fixed blade I have ever handled is a right hander. Sometimes I just use them lefty anyway. Seems to work ok... I guesss...


In all seriouslness I am left handed / right eye dominant so I prefer to throw and shoot righty, eat and write lefty, stand southpaw for when I fight, and use my knives either hand. When I carry my sidearm its righty so my knives are in my left front pocket. No handgun and then my knives go right pocket.
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The only "righty only" fixed blades I have encountered were some "weird" single bevel chisel blade knives.

Now most of the SHEATHS for my fixed have been righties, although the WW2 Q knives, the CATTARAUGUS 225Q and the CASE XX 337Q6, both came with lefty sheaths and the BMCO/VP WW2 sheaths for the MK1 and the MK2 were ambidextrous. 1920s and 1930 Kabar sheaths frequently came in lefty models.

I got into leather working because I have purchased a ton of good knives that came with bad sheaths or were missing them entirely. If I want a lefty sheath, I just make one.
 
Way back when, my Drill Sergeant used to tell us that Lefties were Mutants! He was a Drill Sergeant and he said he new everything!
 
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