Left Handed Question!!

[The F-H.C.A.G.]

I'm also a leftie. I have always used scissors with my right hand, because growing up we could not afford left handed scissors on the commune. Also, when I was in veterinary school, I basically learned how to do surgery right handed as well (again, could not afford the left handed surgical instruments). So I have a bizzare surgical technique-I do closure and cutting with scissors right handed and everything else left handed. When I sew, I drive the needle left handed, but do all my cutting right handed. I actually cannot use left handed scissors!

Be well,

[pdcorlis]

I'm very impressed - who knew so many of our kilted brothers and sisters are southpaws! My dad is a leftie but unfortunately I wasn't blessed with that trait.

[O'Neille]

Unfortunately, my left hand doesn't know what my right hand is doing. Always had a near sighted right eye after a sandstorm injury when I was a child. Got it lasered about five years ago but I still do all visually loaded tasks as a lefty.

[Piper]

Another left hander here. The only thing I do right handed is play the pipes. Actually that way of holding the pipes seemed most natural to me when I first started anyway. I guess maybe they're a left handed instrument by design. Also a reenactor/rendezvouser. I have a Dutch trade musket that I shoot right handed. It's a bit puzzling, but I tend to do better than I do when I try it left handed.
As far as kilts go, no problems at all with modern style kilts, or even the old style fileadh beagh. When I wear a great kilt at an event I usually wrap it opposite of what a righthander would, and draw the plaid over my right shoulder, since that would leave my sword arm free. Most folks who even notice the difference figure I wear the plaid on that side because of the pipes. I've noticed the drones do sit on the shoulder better without the plaid under them.

[Frog]

Lefty, too, but there are a few things I do right-handed, for whatever reason - throw overhand with the right (use my left for underhand), shoot firearms left-handed but I'm a righty in archery, kick left-footed when playing soccer, shoot pool with either but prefer my left...

Frog

[The F-H.C.A.G.]

AAAAAARRRRGGHH!!! I just received a copy of Barb's book, The Art of Kiltmaking, which clearly states, in a little grey box on page 46, that you can't construct a kilt left handed. Maybe that will be revised in the new edition. Regardless, I think I'm up to the challenge!

Be well,

[Pour1Malt]

aye... ai'm in ma richt mind...

(which means ai'm left-handed!)

[brandycr]

aye... ai'm in ma richt mind...

(which means ai'm left-handed!)

um sure thats what the translation means lol

[Steeplechase]

Aye, another lefty here. Although I write on a blackboard as a righty. My first grade teacher tried to convert me to right but I reversed hands as soon as she turned her back, but was unable to reverse at the blackboard as I was always in her vision and was "corrected".

Funny, all sporting activities I am right handed. I quess because my coaches were right handed and taught me to be the same.

I reckon I'm just mixed up. No problems with the kilt. Actually I explain to the unknowing that the difference between a kilt and a skirt is that the kilt is fastened on the right (masculine) as opposed to the skirt on the left or the rear (feminine). This I have found to be the most easily accepted difference.

[ccga3359]

I reckon I'm just mixed up. No problems with the kilt. Actually I explain to the unknowing that the difference between a kilt and a skirt is that the kilt is fastened on the right (masculine) as opposed to the skirt on the left or the rear (feminine). This I have found to be the most easily accepted difference.

'Tis true i was just having some fun earlier!