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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The way you grip the scissors causes a twisting force on them. Right hand twists both clockwise, pressing the blade edges together (in right-handed scissors) and improving the cut.
It happens because of the angle your fingers are at. You might even feel sore on your fingers from where the scissors press against them after a lot of cutting, because of this twisting force.
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