Left handed knives

huntnfishin

huntnfishin

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Are, or were, there any makers of slipjoints and traditionals that use pulls for a lefty? Reason I ask is I bought a fight'n rooster recently and when I got it I noticed the pulls seemed backwards to what I am used to. It's a congress. Weird feeling. Anyhow just curious.
 
GEC made some left handed #73s and #23s early on. Probably pretty hard to find nowadays.
 
This is a left handed German budding, grafting, pruning knife. Old new stock with original wrapper.

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Robin



 
Cool. Thanx for the pics. I guess I will find a lefty to gift this one too. Feels too weird to me thanx!
 
I'm left handed but I've never used a left handed traditional. Regular ones seem easy enough to open.
 
huntnfishin said:
Are, or were, there any makers of slipjoints and traditionals that use pulls for a lefty? Reason I ask is I bought a fight'n rooster recently and when I got it I noticed the pulls seemed backwards to what I am used to. It's a congress. Weird feeling. Anyhow just curious.
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I don't know if there were, but if so that company would've been the best company that ever existed :D
 
Yeah I have a few roosters. I really like the half congress they made. This one had sweet bone handles and was a four blade but I just didn't pay attention to the pics. I just saw those long pulls and started to drool. No biggie. Could be worse.
 
Here you go. Early on GEC made a few by mistake actually. I'm a lefty but I'm so used to righty knives that when I use this one, it's a bit confusing. Yeah, there's a difference... I'm used to righty slip joints, but a sheath knife is another story. When I used to order customs, I'd order them for a lefty- me!
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Here's a lefty Ray Cover. When I ordered it he looked at me funny... as though he didn't get it at first. I think everyone just takes it all for granted. You can see on this knife he put his name on the wrong side of the blade... on another he put his name on both sides! :)

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My latest 'mistake'. Thought the wife might like it. She's a righty too.
 
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I'm not sure I'd know how to open one. As a lefty that's always whined about needing to use righty tools I really should try one out some day. I honestly didn't know they made any.
 
protourist said:
I'm not sure I'd know how to open one. As a lefty that's always whined about needing to use righty tools I really should try one out some day. I honestly didn't know they made any.
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If I was a knife maker that made folders that everyone wanted, I would only make them left handed. And when I got complaints I'd just tell them " well now you know what all the lefties feel every single day " mwah haha haha :devilish::devilish::devilish:
 
roseskunk said:
Here you go. Early on GEC made a few by mistake actually. I'm a lefty but I'm so used to righty knives that when I use this one, it's a bit confusing. Yeah, there's a difference...
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The shield in that is really confusing. At first I thought you were trying to pull one over on us and it was a mirror image of a right-handed knife. But then I realized that wasn't the case, but that the shield was upside down (in addition to being on the wrong side :D). Very strange, that one.

Edited to add: Well, scratch that. I guess I'm just seeing things wrong. Had to go grab one of my "normal" ;) right-handed knives with a Tidioute shield to check and realized that that's the same orientation as the shield would be on the proper side. Man, something about it just looks so odd to me with that shield on the opposite side!
 
Pretty much everything is backward for a left-handed person. The orientation of doors, the mouse on a computer... try shooting a gun if you're left-eye dominant... with a slippy, I open mine by holding the knife in my right hand and using the thumb on my left hand, then I have to switch hands. Not a big deal really, after a lifetime you get used to everything being backwards for you...

Remember that scene in The Eiger Sanction where Clint's character has to cut the rope? Good thing he didn't have to switch hands... :)
 
I had one that said it was a custom, I believe it might have been a SFO by Queen. I forget the company name but it was an outfitter for Civil War enthusiasts. They originally went for big bucks, I found it at a junk mall with the paperwork/slip etc for 8 bucks. I have an email from the owner somewhere, he wasn't too enthusiastic when I told him what I got it for. Anyway, it was left handed, I know that doesn't help you, but if I can find the name I will post it. Valley Forge or NY Forge something similar.
 
roseskunk said:
Pretty much everything is backward for a left-handed person. The orientation of doors, the mouse on a computer... try shooting a gun if you're left-eye dominant... with a slippy, I open mine by holding the knife in my right hand and using the thumb on my left hand, then I have to switch hands. Not a big deal really, after a lifetime you get used to everything being backwards for you...

Remember that scene in The Eiger Sanction where Clint's character has to cut the rope? Good thing he didn't have to switch hands... :)
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This is interesting to me! I'm right-handed, and I open folders exactly as roseskunk describes, except I don't have to switch hands once it's open. I'd have guessed that a lefty would hold the knife in her/his left hand and use right thumb to pull the blade open, then "spin" the knife in left hand because it would open upside down.

On the other hand (pun intended :o), there's a thread about opening slipjoints that illustrates how many approaches people use:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1245274-How-Many-Ways-Do-You-Open-a-Slipjoint

- GT
 
I actually hold the knife in KY left hand and open with my right hand by pinching my blade ( when I can ) but my baby saddlehorn trapper is perfect, I just have to use the spay blade
 
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