Any lefties around here? Stove Gloves!!

Ok, I'm a righty, and load my stove with my right hand. I where the big stove glove on my right hand when loading the stove to protect from splinters and the hot stove. These are long gloves that go up the wrist and are heat protected.

The problem is you have to buy them in a pair, and I end up with extra left hand gloves, un-used. So is there any lefties out there with the opposite problem? I'd swap left for right gloves!

 

Buy a koal keeper an clean your stove when the coals are still pretty warm, you will use both!

 

I don't use them for cleaning the stove. I use the glove for loading the stove when hot.

 

Haha I have thought about asking the same thing before! I always wear out my right hand welding glove and my left one looks great still!

 

Well when I empty my ash pan I use both....

 

Ditto.

 

Always amazes me how inept some folks are using their "off" hand!!!

I'm ambidextrous; as I throw, write, wipe, hammer at work (farrier) right handed. But I brush my teeth, eat, swing my Fiskars, split wood, shoot (guns and bows) left handed. I think I'm this way, because I'm legally blind in my right eye without glasses.............so a lot of stuff just feels more natural lefty. I do have a left handed sister also.

My Moms one sister is "crazy" ambidextrous........................she can write equally well with both hands.................you cannot tell the difference as both handed writing looks the same on paper!!

 

I have the same problem with my welding gloves (tig) I only use a glove on my torch hand and nothing on my rod hand. needless to say i have a sh!t pot of left handed tig gloves in my tool box at work
People think I am nuts when I am running the Syncrowave 500 with a 5/32" dia tungsten welding 1/2 aluminum plate with 1 glove on, just the way i was taught and comfortable with, I have tried using a glove on my left hand, but i take it off within a few minutes

 

If you went to Catholic school "back in the day", the Nuns would beat the left-handedness out of students. Sign of you know who!!!!

 

You really should protect your rod hand...

 

I think you are the unusual one here- very unusual. I am strongly right- handed and in fact, my left hand is not worth much more than catching the points of the tools in my right hand. Of course I could, and would improve should my right hand become unusable for some reason but really, other than providing balance so I can walk in a straight line, my left hand (and left eye for that matter and I have excellent vision in both eyes) are absolutely terrible. If I had to eat with my left hand, I would have to use a spoon only..... and a plastic spoon at that or I would bleed to death before finishing the first meal.... I shave with a straight razor and use both hands; one 'trick' when learning to use the off hand is to brush teeth with the off hand. I tried that maybe twice- and I was a week waiting for the pain and swelling to recede :-( Stupid left hand has absolutely NO IDEA where my teeth (and the hole in my face) ends and constantly went long; the fore- stroke just makes a mess of the bathroom mirror but the back- stroke jabs into some really tender territory.

I do think left- handed people can use their right hands better than most right handed people can use their left hands though because basically, this is a right- handed world. As a right handed person I really do not even notice this until I watch a left- handed person trying to do some everyday thing and frankly, it is a mess. Scissors, can openers and even machine- tools are all built by and for right handed people and watching a left handed person operate any of them is painful (I assume it is even more painful for the left handed people actually trying to accomplish the task that looks clunky to me). Even western languages are biased toward the right handed people.

Brian

 

Ya but the best of us can concur right handedness...

 

Keep both eyes open when you shoot and you will not miss....

 

Got to be a lefty out there, with a bin full of right gloves that will swap with me!!

 

There are actually right handed rifles that are meant (are require) the use of the left eye for aiming. They were usually made by the big, custom English gunmaking houses such as Purdy, Rigby & Rigby, etc. and the first time I saw one I thought it was a joke. The stock is 'bent' right before and through the grip area. They were apparently mostly used by right handed, right eye'd people who lost the use of the right eye apparently.

Brian

 

I purposely use both hands when doing stuff with the stove and because of that, use both gloves. When I first got the 30, I grabbed the inside part of the handle....you know, the hot part that's usually inside the stove, with my left hand......twice. The old stove door opened opposite, so my brain took a couple minutes to figure out not to touch that.
The right hand glove will probably wear out first, but I'm trying to head it off at the pass.
I can write, drive, scratch my butt and a bunch of other stuff lefthanded, but I'm a little clumsy doing it.

 

But you look graceful and debonair when you scratch your butt right handed?

Sorry, just could not resist.

Brian