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View Poll Results: Do you switch mandrel hands?
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No - mandrel stays in same hand at all times
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10.62% |
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Yes - switch back and forth depending on activity
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82.68% |
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N/A - I dip middle of mandrel so I can use both hands equally
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5.31% |
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Other - please elaborate
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2011-12-06, 12:56pm
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Feb 05, 2011
Location: Upstate NY
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Literally anything could be in either hand at any time! When you've got the direction of the heat and the direction of gravity more or less fixed, something else has to move and I'm not flexible enough to use just one hand.
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2012-02-04, 1:07am
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Jan 31, 2012
Location: Houston (ish), TX
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I've never used a mandrel, but when it comes to puntys and blow poles I constantly switch. It was awkward at first. Being comfortable using either hand makes it easier for me to pull points, latticinos, and use hand held marvers.
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Gary
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2012-02-04, 3:33pm
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Join Date: Jan 22, 2012
Location: Upstate NY
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I'm ambidextrous - believe it or not which hand holds the mandrel seems to be driven by which side of my bench the tool I need happens to have landed on. Which speaks to my current lack of organization - I haven't cleaned up my work area in... well, ever. (I've only been doing this a few weeks...and I'm in temporary space, no good tool storage worked out yet.)
Everything I do is hard on the hands - I sit at a keyboard all day at work, then come home and sew and bead - and I really believe that constantly swapping hands has helped me avoid carpal tunnel syndrome and other repetitive motion disorders.
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2012-04-03, 2:23pm
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Location: Southwestern Ontario
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Constantly.
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2012-04-05, 3:13am
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Ad astra per aspera
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Join Date: Jun 15, 2005
Location: Apache Junction AZ
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I think I answered this before BUT...my mandrels are middle-dipped and I still switch back & forth, depending on what I'm doing. I either swap hands or flip the mandrel...one is as good as the other! 
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2012-04-05, 3:42pm
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Flame On!
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Location: Virginia Beach, Va
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I HAVE to switch!!!! I just don't have enough dexterity to spin great in my left hand. So, I hold the mandrel in my left, load glass with my right, heat, switch, spin, switch back, decorate.
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2012-04-05, 4:39pm
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Practicing perfect
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Join Date: Oct 12, 2007
Location: Fullerton, CA
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I'm a switcher, start left, go right and then go back and forth depending on whether I'm adding glass (left) or shaping (right).
It was also mentioned to me in one of my first classes to keep your mandrel in one hand, but then at the end of the class the instructor mentioned it was okay to use either hand as long as you continue to rotate the hot glass. It works for me and I'm okay with it.
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2012-04-09, 7:31am
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Member
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Join Date: Mar 16, 2012
Posts: 34
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I switch hands a lot. Both of my hands seem to cause a slight droop in either direction so I fix it by switching back and forth!
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