LeftHand NZ - Left-handed products for left handed people/Tapes measures, Rulers

Text Box: When left-handers hold right-handed tape measures in their left hand and pull with the right, the numbers are always upside down! This left-handed retractable steel tape is held in the left hand and pulled out with the right and hooray (!) the numbers are the right way up! Scaled from right to left in both centimeters and inches it is a great gift for a left-handed tradesman or DIY expert! It is not cheap but it is a really good quality tape with a hand strap and a sturdy stainless steel belt clip. Please allow 2 weeks for delivery.

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Text Box: This quality left-handed tape measure will last a lifetime with reasonable care. The scale runs from right to left, with centimeters on one side (colour coded in 10cm increments) and inches on the other side all in yellow. Great to have both inches and centimetres on the same tape! It comes in a handy perspex storage case and makes a very thoughtful gift for a left-handed Mum or Nana who is into handcrafts, quilting, patchwork or dressmaking!

Tape measure for dressmaking and handcrafts

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Text Box: Code: LNZ32R (Red) Code: LNZ32B (Navy) Code: LNZ32Y (Yellow)

Text Box: These bright, cheerful "lefty" rulers are available in either navy blue or sunshine yellow. (Red is unavailable at present.) The zero is on the right hand side. They make it easy to measure and draw lines of the correct length with the left-hand without the left hand obscuring the scale. The right-to-left direction for making measurement marks and ruling lines is much easier for left-handers. An added benefit is that the nib of the pencil is much less likely to snag on the paper!

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Text Box: Code: LNZ40R (Red) Code: LNZ40B (Navy) Code: LNZ40Y (Yellow)

Text Box: Our 30cm rulers are scaled from right to left and are in all respects the same as the shorter rulers except that they are longer and wider - this makes it much easier to read the measurements. These are available in post box red, navy blue and sunshine yellow.

Text Box: If you are excited about these terrific lefty rulers you might like to know about our. . . Left-handed 2-hole pencil sharpener This pencil sharpener is precision made in Germany and is the ideal size for school or for slipping into your pencil case. It sharpens both standard and large size pencils. The pencil is held in the left hand, the sharpener in the right hand and the pencil is turned away from the body anti-clockwise, the most comfortable turning motion for a left-hander. The shavings are held neatly in the lid which can be taken off and emptied when it is full. Excellent quality! All our sharpeners - sold separately like this have an attractive green Perspex casing.

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Oval: Please read this before you order….

Tape measures, Rulers

Many lefties find tape measures and rulers irritating!

It always seems as if the numbers are upside down! Or the wrong way around! Many of us older lefties have simply had to adapt and find a reasonably comfortable way to use the right handed tape measures and rulers that are easily available everywhere.

If you use a retractable steel tape measure all through the day, or if you do a lot of dressmaking and/or handcrafts, or you use a ruler very frequently, then why not get yourself the left-handed version?

Skeptical?

I was too! My initial reaction was “Yeah, yeah, yeah!” but I was surprised to find that having the zero on the right hand side of the ruler (instead of on the left as it usually is) really does make all those measuring jobs much easier because your left hand is not covering up the measurements!

The lefty tape measure for dressmakers. . .

There isn’t much time for sewing these days, but when there is a moment to get cracking on a project, the left-handed tape measure for dressmakers makes the job go more smoothly for me because I don’t have to unravel the whole tape in order to use it from the other end!! And it is simply great to have both centimeters and inches colour coded on the same tape!

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