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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.



DBx Custom Knife - Handmade

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.


DBx Knife Handles - Sized & Contoured to fit Your Hand
A cutting board with Handmade Chef Knives & cut vegetables.

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.

Right & Left Handed Knife Handles

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.

DBx-Knife Design Elements & Benefits  Defined

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

Compare Pinch Grip performance, blade-centric vs handle centric pinch grip down force application areas.

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.

Knuckle Clearance Knife Handle Designs
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