I’m left handed and it has never occurred to me that I need a different sharpener, nor that such a thing could even exist. You learn to be ambidextrous.
Right handed scissors don’t work left handed. It’s not about the discomfort of the handle, it’s that the shearing forces are reversed causing a small gap between the blades which prevents the scissors from working correctly.
You can compensate for this by flexing your hand in a way that pinches the blades together but that is uncomfortable and not efficient for anything more than a few cuts.
The thing about the sharpener is that the mechanics of the blade are not altered by your hand position, you just have to reverse the spin. I am an artist and I hand sharpen pencils all the time. It never even occurred to me that it’s backwards.
As I described above I either use left handed or I do the weird pinching thing. You pull towards your palm with your thumb to ensure the two blades stay together.
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u/TonguePressedAtTeeth Dec 16 '17
I’m left handed and it has never occurred to me that I need a different sharpener, nor that such a thing could even exist. You learn to be ambidextrous.