![]() My friend Paul Van Pernis, former president of the Early American Industries Association (EAIA) , recently reached out to me and shared that he built a pair of left-handed workbenches based off of Tage Frid’s original plans - one for himself and one for his youngest son. 3/4 view of left handed Tage Frid workbench by Paul Van Pernis Given that in earlier times craftsmen usually made their own benches it seems logical left handed benches would be easy enough to make unless the social stigma and/or dominance of right handed tools outweighed the convenience. If my woodworking research friends have actual information to the contrary I am interested to learn more about left-handed woodworkers. I suspect most are from the mid 20th century or later with the assumption that earlier southpaws were likely forced to work right-handed much as a lot of the left-handed folks in my family were forced to learn to write with their right hands in school. I haven’t seen a lot of left-handed, or ‘ sinister‘ workbenches out in the wild. ![]()
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