Greetings,
I'm right-handed and my dominant eye is my right eye. Sawing with
shoulder, elbow, wrist, eye, and saw in a plane is second nature. I was
helping my daughter with a Project this morning, involving sawing bits off
a broomstick. She's right-handed, but her left eye is dominant. She kept
getting out of alignment in a consistent way--toward that dominant eye.
I'm looking for personal experience from rh/le wreckers. How do you align
yourself with your work? Use the right eye anyway? Cut left-handed? Muddle
through?
thanks,
--
"Keep your ass behind you"
wreck20051219 at spambob.net
I'm rh/le as well. I never gave it much thought, but my hand sawing
"gets out of alignment" too. Maybe now I know why.
I'll go make some cuts and evaluate.
-Zz
On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 20:46:42 GMT, Australopithecus scobis
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Greetings,
> I'm right-handed and my dominant eye is my right eye. Sawing with
>shoulder, elbow, wrist, eye, and saw in a plane is second nature. I was
>helping my daughter with a Project this morning, involving sawing bits off
>a broomstick. She's right-handed, but her left eye is dominant. She kept
>getting out of alignment in a consistent way--toward that dominant eye.
>
> I'm looking for personal experience from rh/le wreckers. How do you align
>yourself with your work? Use the right eye anyway? Cut left-handed? Muddle
>through?
>
>thanks,
On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 23:36:55 +0000, Rich opined:
> I'm also rh/le dom. I learned it in sniper school. I taught myself to use my
> right eye when shooting and also anything else. Partially close the left eye
> and work that way for a while. It sounds weird but eventually your right eye
> will "start to take charge. Also, practice (often) by closing each eye and
> concentrating on the image shift when you do so. It takes some concentration
> but after some practice you become both eye ambidextrous. (sounds weird but
> it does work.)
> Hope this helps. Oh BTW it doesn't help with spelling or dyslexia. Two more
> difficulties I face.
Thanks, I'll have her try the squint first. Probably too much to expect a
9-year old to practice the image shift! :)
[ You reminded me of an old AR7 .22 survival rifle that stored in its own
stock. The stock was lumpy so the silly thing had to be fired
left-handed/left-eyed. ]
--
"Keep your ass behind you"
wreck20051219 at spambob.net
On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 21:33:16 -0600, Oleg Lego opined:
>>[ You reminded me of an old AR7 .22 survival rifle that stored in its own
>>stock. The stock was lumpy so the silly thing had to be fired
>>left-handed/left-eyed. ]
>
> Really? I always fired mine right-handed, right-eyed.
> Neat rifle.
I couldn't get my face over the bump for the barrel. It was a long
time ago: my face was smaller then... It was indeed a neat rifle.
Back OT, I've been thinking about the earlier suggestion to work with the
change in perspective when blinking the dominant eye. Seems that one could
squint each eye whilst doing a cut, switching between a top view of the
cut line and an oblique view of the saw teeth and the mark. {run to the
shop...} Cool, it works! Use the off-eye to line up the reflection of
the wood in the dozuki blade. That keeps the blade perpendicular. Use the
dominant eye to keep everything aligned. Think hard about it, and get both
views at once.
I'm also rh/le dom. I learned it in sniper school. I taught myself to use my
right eye when shooting and also anything else. Partially close the left eye
and work that way for a while. It sounds weird but eventually your right eye
will "start to take charge. Also, practice (often) by closing each eye and
concentrating on the image shift when you do so. It takes some concentration
but after some practice you become both eye ambidextrous. (sounds weird but
it does work.)
Hope this helps. Oh BTW it doesn't help with spelling or dyslexia. Two more
difficulties I face.
"Australopithecus scobis" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Greetings,
> I'm right-handed and my dominant eye is my right eye. Sawing with
> shoulder, elbow, wrist, eye, and saw in a plane is second nature. I was
> helping my daughter with a Project this morning, involving sawing bits off
> a broomstick. She's right-handed, but her left eye is dominant. She kept
> getting out of alignment in a consistent way--toward that dominant eye.
>
> I'm looking for personal experience from rh/le wreckers. How do you align
> yourself with your work? Use the right eye anyway? Cut left-handed? Muddle
> through?
>
> thanks,
>
> --
> "Keep your ass behind you"
> wreck20051219 at spambob.net
>