Question for my fellow lefties

Steely_Gunz said:
My nonscientific guess, most people who are aware enough to watch your threat level as a target probably fixate on what you are doing with your right hand. Lefties are a sneaky bunch ;)
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Yup, I carry lefty AIWB. Judges 3 in the Old Testament has an excellent story of God using a lefty to deal with an evil king. It's always been a personal favorite.
 
Pocket knives I always carry in my left pocket. I have no choice but to have sheath on right side. Even a knife with a clip I normally carry in my left pocket, not using the clip. That ain't all. All my pull-through knife sharpeners are made for righties. I generally ignore the Handle and just grasp the non-handle end. Though I suppose it would made no difference if I use it as a leftie and pull through form the opposite side? Or would it?
RF
 
Rover-Friskey said:
Pocket knives I always carry in my left pocket. I have no choice but to have sheath on right side. Even a knife with a clip I normally carry in my left pocket, not using the clip. That ain't all. All my pull-through knife sharpeners are made for righties. I generally ignore the Handle and just grasp the non-handle end. Though I suppose it would made no difference if I use it as a leftie and pull through form the opposite side? Or would it?
RF
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Friends don't let friends use pull through sharpeners. Get a Spyderco Sharpmaker if you want a guided system under 100 bucks.
 
I'm mostly lefty, but learned to do some things right-handed out of necessity, and those stuck. Left-handed scissors feel weird, for instance.

I use knives left handed almost exclusively - mostly only ever use my right when I'm doing something awkward I probably shouldn't be trying. I do have right-handed folders, but at some point realized there was no good reason to compromise, and now I almost never buy "opinionated" right-handed knives.

For fixed blades, right-handed sheaths just don't work for me. If I'd never had lefty sheaths, it would probably be fine. But I did, and now putting them on the right feels very wrong, and because of that fixed blades of mine with righty-sheaths never get carried.
 
snuffle said:
I'm mostly lefty, but learned to do some things right-handed out of necessity, and those stuck. Left-handed scissors feel weird, for instance.

I use knives left handed almost exclusively - mostly only ever use my right when I'm doing something awkward I probably shouldn't be trying. I do have right-handed folders, but at some point realized there was no good reason to compromise, and now I almost never buy "opinionated" right-handed knives.

For fixed blades, right-handed sheaths just don't work for me. If I'd never had lefty sheaths, it would probably be fine. But I did, and now putting them on the right feels very wrong, and because of that fixed blades of mine with righty-sheaths never get carried.
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For fixed blade sheath, If I am carrying 3-5 O'clock..... I think I'm setting them up as a "lefty" sheath? I just recently realized this, as I like my knives edge Forward. With how I draw
 
My Spyderco lock back sits in my right pocket, I don't think I would ever want it in my left pocket.

I think many left handed people also have a very functional right hand but many right handed people have little functional left hand use.

I shoot left handed but can operate a right hand bolt just fine but my dedicated hunting rifle is a left handed bolt.
 
As an almost 60 year old lefty that started carrying knives around 9 years old they have always been on the left side. The Uncle Henrys where in the left front pocket as I got older and started carrying a wallet I would slide the knife on the outside edge of my wallet in my left rear pocket. The first knife I remember getting with a clip was either a Gerber EZ out or a Blackie Collins bolt lock and they went on the left front pocket and used left handed. The first REAL knife I got was the Kershaw random task left hander. Then came auto like MT Scarab and LUDT with clips on the left side then my first custom a Jim Burke. After that point I would buy a knife if I couldn’t switch the clip easily even if I had to drill new holes for the clip. Now I only buy true left handed and mostly fixed blades. IMG_4709.jpegIMG_4710.jpeg
The random task is the second one on the right side this are old pictures need to get all my lefties together again for a new picture.
 
Fixed blade sheaths on the left are fine with me. Yes, edge is forward but I am not, nor ever had a reason to be, concerned with that. Maybe I should be ? idk. Pull it out, turn it over, go to work. One the easier adaptations I’ve gotten used to.
 
Left front pocket even though I am pseudo ambi doing many tasks right handed. Fixed have left side setup though I do prefer ambi sheaths for versatility.
 
WedgeAntilles said:
Friends don't let friends use pull through sharpeners. Get a Spyderco Sharpmaker if you want a guided system under 100 bucks.
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WedgeAntilles,
Thanks. I have a Work Sharp - WSBCHAGS Benchtop Angle Set Knife Sharpener - Ken Onion Edition - which appears to be similar to the Spyderco. It does a good job. BTW....WedgeAntilles is great nickname!
RF
 
I'm ambidextrous.

Only things I do left handed are write & shoot.

Shot for many years right handed (shooting single handed bullseye which what I learned how to do 1st & the only thing they did on the range that I started shooting on) until I asked a more experienced shooter to help explain why I wasn't shooting better.

He asked me a fundamental question: Have you ever checked your eye dominance?

Didn't know what he was talking about. So, we checked it & turns out that I'm left eye dominant. So, I switched to shooting left handed & have had no problems shooting ever since.

Do everything else naturally right handed. Just picked up a ball & bat that way & have problems if I try switching left.

I carry my knives right handed which works well with my left handed gun carry.
 
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I'm left handed and prefer to carry a folder in my front left pocket. I've never bought or owned a left handed knife. I do tend to buy lock backs and crossbar locks because they aren't specifically right handed though. Not many new lock backs are coming out these days...which works for me since I my first preference is a fixed blade anyway. But it does seem like there's a new crossbar knife almost every day now.
 
Another that owns right and switches to left. Predominately left handed, shoot right, bat right, played hockey right.
 
I do everything left handed except shoot. But I prefer to shoot rifles left if I can. All of my folding knives are ambi or left specific, all fixed blades setup for left hand carry. Right hand stuff are deal breakers for me. I've been after Pro-Tech to release more lefty knives but they won't do it.
 
When I was a kid I mostly remember just slipjoints and belt pouch lock backs, so it wasn't even really an issue at all. For a while I carried a folding utility knife in my right pocket and did the hand switch thing, but since getting back into knives as an adult I've only bought ambidextrous or left handed knives. There are too many options available at this point in all price ranges to use something that isn't designed to work for me. Sometimes it gets annoying when manufacturers only make right handed versions, but that's likely saved me quite a bit of money in the long run.

I also fall into the cross dominant group. I like to say that I'm left handed, but right armed. Most things that require strength or stamina I do right handed, while things that require more fine control I generally do left handed. I can do a lot of things ambidextrously though.
 
I always carry in my left pocket i never switch the pocket clip ive learned to adapt so long ago i have no issues.I just avoid anything w a single thumb lug and i wont reverse it to the opposite side because i dont like how it looks.The 90s was tough not so many double thumb lugs back then, i used to open w my left middle finger back then ,thats where spydercos came in handy back then especially the Endura and Military...
 
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Makers are myopic. If l carry a firearm (Lefty), no big deal. What about righty shooters who now have limited options, or us lefties who •prefer• left carry. Ponderous
 
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