South Paw

[smiling-knife]

It seems that there are few knife makers catering to the left-handed friends among us. This one is marked H. Rowbotham & Co Sheffield Limited. It seems quite old, but I do not have any definitive information at the moment. If you have any, please let me know. In the mean time, please post any e.g.s of left-handed knives.

 

[SilverFoxKnows]

Where did you find that? I've just adapted to using my index finger instead of my thumb nail. I think it would be almost strange to open it the right- uh- left way.

Frank

 

[Amos Iron Wolf]

Okay, that's cool. Even if the nick was on the other side, that would still be a cool knife in it's basic and simple self.

 

[iSaur]

Here's another knife with a lefty main blade.

These were made for the military of various Commonwealth countries by many different manufacturers . From the look of the blade on your knife, Rowbotham could have been one of them.

The odd thing, to me anyway, is that all the ones I remember seeing are left-handed. This is not in keeping with the military's usual one-size-fits-all approach, and there is plenty of room to put the nail nick on the other side of the blade.

IIRC, Wenger made a model or two of their SAKs with the tools set up for lefthanders.

 

[JD Mandrell]

Case has done limited runs of some of it's knives for southpaws, mostly for Shepard Hills Cutlery.

And I am now carrying a Wenger SAK I got last week of Ebay that is a left handed version.