do you switch hands when shaving?

Lefty all day long ...

Yes, both hands. Righty dominant, but I play guitar, so due to that experience, it seems that my left hand is a tad bit more controllable and somewhat more useful than it otherwise would be.

My friend and I were debating how handedness affects guitar playing. He's right-handed and as he's just starting out chord shapes are killing him much less than they bothered me as a lefty. I think being a lefty is actually really helpful for playing right-handed guitar.

Interesting...I'm a righty, but I play guitar and never had an issue with the dexterity in my left hand to form chords. Obviously it took some development and muscle-memory practice, but it was never an issue. My fingers on my left hand are WAY more dexterous than my right (because I don't fingerpick), and I had a hard time with cramping, but getting my fingers into position was not much of an issue...aside from just getting used to it...

I am right handed and shave with DEs and SEs using my dominant hand exclusively.  A few years ago, when I attempted to use straights, I tried using both my right and left hand, depending on the side of the face I was shaving.  I think I could have mastered that but did not enjoy straight shaving enough to continue so never completely learned.

This has been an interesting thread and the number of you who have a dominant hand, either left or right, yet do certain things with the other is surprising to me.

Course you could also just flip the guitar over and flip the strings too, a la Jimmy Hendrix. Or you could flip the guitar over and the strings as is a la a lot if old time blues players. You've got some serious options as a lefty, on top of the fingering deal you just noted.

Or like Doyle Bramhall II today!

Being a lefty is all fun and games until you have to write and get ink all over your hand.

Or until you have to sit down next to a righty at the dinner table. We always had to carefully plan out our sitting arrangements at the table to accomodate my wrong-handed sister...

Being a lover of fountain pens, I am always interested in how lefties cope because of the obvious smudging problem of the wet ink.  Left handed fountain pen lovers seem to deal with the problem in different ways.  I know PhilNH5 is a left handed fountain pen user and he seems to be able to make adjustments.  

As I stated earlier, this has been a most interesting thread and andrewjs18's original curiosity has opened up a whole new take on the issue.  I just love this.

I switch over depending on the side of the face I am shaving. Left side left hand etc:

I have tried using both hands but just to check it out. Only use my dominant right hand.

Although, when I was a kid I was always jealous of the lefties and wished I was left handed myself. Liked the special scissors

Being a lefty is all fun and games until you have to write and get ink all over your hand.

I hate that! That is the primary reason I cannot ever use a pencil....

also to note, I cannot use a left handed mouse at all, even though I do almost everything with my left hand.

I have tried using both hands but just to check it out. Only use my dominant right hand.

Although, when I was a kid I was always jealous of the lefties and wished I was left handed myself. Liked the special scissors

Being a lefty is all fun and games until you have to write and get ink all over your hand.

I hate that!  That is the primary reason I cannot ever use a pencil....

also to note, I cannot use a left handed mouse at all, even though I do almost everything with my left hand.

That's okay, Andrew and you other lefties; we love you just as you are.  The world would be an incredibly boring place if we were all the same.  As a righty, may I say lefties are special and thank you for being here and educating us righties.

I'm right handed. I shave right handed when using DE or SE.

My left hand has lot of dexterity in it. My mother told me I seemed to be left dominant when I was growing up, but she encouraged me to use my right hand. So, maybe I truly am a left handed person in a right handed world?

I'm planning on trying straights in the near future and plan on using both hands straight shaving. Hopefully, I don't cut off my nose to spite my face! LOL

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