AwesomeLowlander comments on The power, the absolute power!

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I have a 100% symmetric kitchen scissors that gets used for just about everything. How is it backwards / garbage?

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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Hold your scissors like you're cutting something. The top blade should be on the right side and the bottom edge that whatever you're cutting rests on will be on the left facing you. This is true even if flipped.

It would be reversed on left handed scissors. This is the important difference. It's more common nowadays for the grips to be ambidextrous, but the blade is still an issue. Of course lefties CAN cut things with righty scissors. But try out a lefty pair sometime. You'll find the blade blocks your view of what you're doing. You can't easily see the line that you're cutting.

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[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Interesting, hadn't thought of anything but the grip affecting ambidextricity. I guess part of it is I don't do precise cutting that requires me to pay attention to the blade.

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[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 13 points 10 months ago

Even when you do not need to see exactly what you are cutting, physics of the blade orientation, and your hand movements, pull the blades apart when you use right-handed scissors in your left hand.

As you can see, the blades on my left-handed scissors are mirrored to yours, so when I cut my hand movements push the blades together.

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