Cynthia White
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Can someone tell me please. How do right handed individuals hold a bench plane? With which hand on the tote?
Being a contrary guy, I use either hand on either end (although I use a low angle jack a lot more than a bench plane). This give a slight angle to the blade, which sometimes is better in one direction than the other - like on the edge of a drawer, planing dovetails, or with figured wood.Can someone tell me please. How do right handed individuals hold a bench plane? With which hand on the tote?
...what about chisels? Do right handed people hold the chisel or the mallet in the right hand?
Being a lefty, it's left on tote and left on mallet.
I really wish that LN and LV would make some more lefty tools...
I've used hammers, drills, screwdrivers and planes this way, proving that I am pretty ambiguous. Er, ambivalent? Amphibian?
....proving that I am pretty ambiguous. Er, ambivalent? Amphibian?
.... I even got an instructor to agree that it was fine to pull rather than push an American plane, Japanese style.