True left handed scissors- if you are right handed you probably have not thought about the difference. Try this, hold your right handed scissors in your left hand. Now, try to cut out a shape drawn on a piece of paper. Not so easy, is it? The first thing you will notice is that you cannot see the line you want to follow unless you rotate your hand toward you and crane your neck to look over the scissor blade. The other thing you might not notice right away is that the natural tendency when using scissors is for the thumb to push out and the fingers to pull inwards. On the left hand this forces the blades apart instead of keeping the cutting edges against each other.
True left scissors have their blades reversed so that the natural tendency to push out with the thumb while cutting keeps the blades together and cutting well. You can also see where you are cutting much easier.
A few years ago I treated myself to these pairs of true left handed dress making shears and pinking shears. Now, I wish all of my scissors were true left hand design so that I wouldn't have to switch back and forth. If you are lucky enough to be left handed like me, get yourself some true left handed scissors. You can avoid hand strain and callouses on your thumb from pulling the thumb blade towards your hand with right hand scissors! Switch soon, you deserve it!
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