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Custom Knife question.
I have a patient that just bought a small market with a meat counter and she is having some tendonitis issues in her hands and arms, have any of you used a custom knife maker to design a knife unique to your hand, and if so, do you need to see your knife maker in person to design your knife? The knife(s) would be used primarily for meat cutting.
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Hey, never said they weren't beautiful. Just that I don't care enough about them to have any myself.
I know a lot of meat cutters and people that work in the meat packing industry. Most use cheap blades like Forschner, Dexter, and Russell . I don't think your friend would want to spend the money on a custom knife and most custom makers don't use the cheap steel like the commercial knives. I would tell him to see and DR about a brace for his hands. Most of the longtime butchers that I know have hand issues too.
We have a beef and a turkey packing plant nearby so access to vendors with the one size fits all knives is easy, she has somewhat smaller hands and I was curious if there were knife makers that catered to chefs and such folks, I figured they would be a bit more particular about a daily use tool. I deal with Carpal Tunnel all of the time, I want to cut off the tendonitis before it gets there, so to speak. I was thinking a knife designed to fit her hand would be a step in the right direction.
Thanks for the link Wambli, I will pass it on.
Chef and Kitchen knives are a lot different than high production butchering knives.
I have a couple of Forschner breaking knives which I used for cutting up big fish. The good thing about the commercial blades is the sharpen so easy...Jut hit them a few times with a steel and keep cutting. The Fischer packing plant in Louisville actually had a guy on every shift that did nothing but sharpen and regrind knives. All Dexter and Forschner.