I’m left-handed and growing up, in school, there were never enough left handed scissors between myself and the maybe two other lefties in my class so I would often need to use right-handed scissors. But they would either not cut paper at all or kind of tear the paper, forcing me to switch to my right hand to get the scissors to cut smoothly.
Just yesterday I needed to trim a label and no matter how I angled the scissors, they would not cut the paper but they immediately did once I switched to my right hand. Thus, how do scissors “know” which hand you’re holding them in?
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It mostly about where your thumb is putting the pressure – correctly held your thumb is putting pressure that pushes the blades closer together and makes a smoother cut.
Incorrectly held (left holding right handed it pushes the blade further apart making it harder to cut,
Lefties can learn to use right handed scissors with a different grip. Ive always looped my thumb in and used my thumb to push the top blade in the opposite direction it normally would.
Nicer scissors are tight enough not to have that problem at all – always get the good ones. Its weird as an adult in the office…there is definitely the “good scissors”(the orange hand one with thick blades) and the “good staplers”(those metal once with some felt) that everyone wants to have and you have to be protective off lol.
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