Positive Indexing
- This adds comfort & safety to the knife use/design.
- A "positive indexed" knife is characterized by the relationship of:
- Neutral/natural wrist rotation,
- To natural knife handle grasp,
Creating a positive blade angle.
Positive knife blade angles imply a blade rotation slightly away from food control hand.
Traditional Knife Grip
Safety Concerns
- Utilizing a pinch grip to create more downforce... creates extremely high pressure points in the index finger which can be painful.
- The spine of the knife is a very small/uncomfortable area to apply downforce.
- The standard knife grip limits much of your ability to control knife roll-over.
Handmade Kitchen Knives
Custom Sized
&
Contoured Handles
" The Secret behind a Great set of Knives is in the Handle."
~ Gordon Ramsay ~
Custom DBx-Knives ...
- We have reimagined kitchen knives to enhance the interactive experience between you, your food & the knife.
- Custom handmade kitchen & chef knives enhance the user's: grasp,
safety,
comfort,
cutting force & control.
Custom DBx-Knife Handles
- These handles are crafted from unique, new geometric designs, sized to fit your hand.
- DBx-Handles are sized & contoured to engage your natural grasp, minimizing grip strength required to... safely prepare our food.
Hand Specific Knife Designs
Right & Left Handed Handles
- Individual, geometrically corrected & sized knife handle designs for both right & left-handed users.
- Individual finger, thumb & palm touch points are integrated to enhance: the user's grasp, comfort & control.
- Crafted to minimize pressure points in the user's grasp, handmade to fit your dominant hand.
- We have & are open to modifying knife & handle designs for customers with hand damage & special needs.
DBx-Custom Handmade Knives
Features & Benefits ...
- The secrets behind great culinary knives are optimized...
- Handle ... Size & Geometry
- Blade ... Styles & Profiles
- DBx-Handles are sized & contoured, reducing relative grip strength necessary to safely prepare our foods by 80%.
- Our thin,
precision ground blades...
are easily sharpened,
reduce
cutting force &
retaining
performance over time.
- A consistent/comfortable high-strength grasp, yields muscle memory for cutting-edge position & direction.
- Large thumb & finger handle contours/ facets enhance directional & roll control to minimize injury risk.
- Large force application zones ... can diminish peak pressures by over 90% for a stress/pain-free user experience.
- Lightweight blades & handles enhance user feedback, resulting in
refined knife handling skills & cutting techniques.
Innovative Handle Designs
Sized & Contoured ...
"One Size Fits All" is a myth not accepted in the glove, shoe & clothing industries, but widely promoted among culinary knife makers.
- Sized & geometrically corrected knife handle designs provide unmatched: safety, comfort & control.
- Asymmetrical handle geometry, correlating with your natural grasp, alleviates a wide range of issues.
- These handles minimize:
distortion,
stress & pressure points
...
in bone structures & tissues of the hand/wrist.
-Deep contours in DBx-Handles prevent our hand from sliding forward into the blade & the knife from slipping out of our hand.
- Properly sized & placed handle facets reduce the dangers of a handle/knife rotating in our grasp.
- Geometrical facets (grip areas) for individual finger segments & the thumb, boost our effective grip strength.
- Improving grasp stability for individuals with:
hand injuries,
joint pain and/or arthritis
yields improved
safety & increased
independence.
Custom Pinch-Grip Handles
Minimize ... Injury Risk
...
More
Cutting
...
Power, Control, Comfort & Safety.
20~25x Larger / Balanced Force
. . . . Transfer Areas . . . .
- Lowers ... Peak Pressure Points
& Related Hand Damage.
- Traditional Pinch Grip = 1x
Cutting/Down Force
Application Area
- DBx-Handle Pinch Grip = 20-25x
Cutting/Down Force
Application Area
Traditional Handles Yield
Small Force Application Areas
- High-pressure points in the knife handle grasp restrict normal levels of blood flow to areas of the hand/fingers.
- Tissues with restricted blood flow are susceptible to damage and repetitive stress injuries.
- Reducing blood flow in the hand & fingers causes pain & stiffness,
especially for those with arthritis.
Custom DBx-Handles
More Cutting Power, Less Pain
- DBx Pinch Grip Handles yield outstanding: comfort, power & control for a safer user experience.
- Our ergonomic, innovative designs are key to the independence of individuals with low hand &/or wrist strength.
-
DBx-Pinch-Grip Handles may reduce the
relative hand strength necessary to safely control the culinary knife by 80%.
Ergonomic Considerations
- In a blade centric pinch grip; cutting/down forces are focused into two small areas.
- DBx Pinch-Grip handles distribute force over surface areas 20~25x larger, alleviating pain & tissue damage.
- Muscle & tissue damage in the hand
is often related to handle size & symmetrical design.
- DBx asymmetrical, custom geometry handles are designed to reduce pressure points & stress in the hand.
- Muscle memory for handle to blade angle is difficult to establish with most traditional knife handles.
- DBx-Handles provide for a consistent, secure & comfortable grasp.
- This is essential to developing muscle memory, improving cutting accuracy & knife safety.
- Custom-sized,
geometrically corrected handle designs
provide unparalleled ergonomics & safety in kitchen cutlery.
Handle Design Logic ...
- Knives pose a risk to the users, most often when they slip and/or rotate in the hand.
- The thumb & finger control surfaces are crucial design elements to prevent the knife from rolling & cutting the hand holding the food.
- Hand damage & repetitive stress injuries are often the result of incorrectly sized & symmetrical handle designs.
- Custom handle sizing with asymmetrical geometry will reduce hand damage & repetitive stress injuries.
- Wrist: ... stress, muscle & tissue damage, are often related to a knife handle's linear alignment with the blade.
- Our asymmetrical handle...
designs
& relative blade
alignment,
significantly reduce horizontal & vertical wrist angles.
- Reduced wrist angles also yield more blade control & cutting power.
Cutting Board Performance
- Knuckle clearance increases our opportunities to utilize sections of the knife blade/cutting edge closer to the handle .
- This minimizes the relative forces, required at the handle to prepare our food.
- These features will provide a more enjoyable & safer food preparation experience for years to come.
- We offer various knife handle & blade design combinations optimized for food preparation on cutting boards.
- Select knives with low cutting curvature combined with handles angled down in the back & indexed to reduce extreme wrist angles.
- Most DBx-Knife designs also provide knuckle clearance alleviating the need to work at the perimeter of a cutting board.
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