Did you intend that as a trick statement? Or did it just work out that way? Naturally a Left Hand liner, frame or compression lock will work as easily for me as the right hand version would work for someone right handed. But there's an aweful lot more to a knife than just the lock.
Okay, I see what you are talking about. No, it was not intended as some kind of trick statement.
Nail nick slip-joints and thumb stud folders both locking and non locking can, and often do favor the right handed. Even a design element as seemingly ambi as the thumb hole can be incorporated into designs that, for one or any number of reasons, favor one hand over the other. When this is the case, we left handed folks are rarely the ones favored.
I have used slip joints from Case, Queen, Schrade, and Buck, but I have never noticed any bias. They felt fine to me using them left handed, and even if I had tried to use them right handed, it would obviously not feel "right" at all, certainly not compared to using the left, no matter what kind of handed bias was incorporated into the design.
Maybe I'm just lucky, but I don't notice things like that, and I don't have trouble with right handed scissors, whatever those are. Yes, I have heard of left handed scissors, but I have no idea how they might be different.
Maybe if I used a pair the difference would be obvious, but I am happy to use right handed scissors.
I would defy you to easily open and close a Spyderco d'Holder Toad.
I have never handled one, but just looking at pictures it looks like I might have more trouble than usual, due to the size, using either hand. I don't know, I don't know anyone around me who owns one.
The fact that I "can" manage to operate a Spyderco Lum Chinese Folder is not to say that I would want to do so on a regular basis.
This one I have handled, and I found it to be no different than any other liner lock/frame lock, as far as releasing it with my left thumb.
As I said before, I personally think it's safer, and is quite comfortable for me, and has been since I got my first liner lock. Obviously some people do have trouble.
In fact, I like the design so much that I have a left handed custom version on order from Mr. Lum. Wonder how many right handed users would line up to buy it for personal use if I needed to sell it. Ditto with the left hand One-Eyed-Jack that I have on order from A.T. Barr. And those two, by my standards, are pretty "righty friendly" for LH liner locks. Imagine handing a custom LH version of the Spydero C25 Centofante to a righty.
While I agree that most right handers would not be beating down your door to buy one, my opinion is the same. I don't think a righty would have any more trouble using the left handed lock than a lefty would with a right handed lock.
If Michael Walker had designed the lock opposite of what he did, that's what people would use as they are now, although it would be completely opposite of what we have now.
I just personally think it's a simple designation, and I always have. For 100% sure, that is all it is to me.
Again though, perhaps I am just lucky to have more, whatever, and can easily use right handed locks. As you can see however, there is at least one left handed person who also prefers right handed locks
Clips too are an issue. Again, if you want to prove you talents as a contortionist, that's you business. But I really think many would challenge the "universality" of a clip that cannot be moved from side to side.
I am completely lost here. I really don't know how a clip can be called right or left handed, or more suitable for either handed use.
I do prefer tip up with a clip that keeps the blade snugged up against the outside seam of my pocket, but it's not much of a preference, and I really don't give it much thought. However it sits in my pocket makes no difference to how I use it, from what I can tell.
), and you have an off-hand mounted clip; after drawing the knife you'd have do give an extra motion to spin the knife in your hand a half a turn to get your hand in position to open the knife.
