Three Years To Design This Kitchen Knife.
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Don Nguyen Design Series Gen2
After 3 years of brainstorming and prototyping, we're here, to the first "official" Design Series kitchen knives. The goal was to make more accessible knives at a lower cost that still have the performance and fit and finish of our Signature pieces. All of the geometry and final touches are done in our small shop, where we still grind, thin, and blend every knife by hand to make sure they have straight, zero edges with subtle convexity.
It took a lot of back and forth, decisions, and soul searching to get to this result.
Thanks for watching.
Edited by: me - Jak na to + styl
I was here
Can't believe your videos are free.
I felt like i was making prototype of knives all the time. ❤
That's awesome ❤
Finally someone going into the subtle details. That's so cool to see and also inspiring for us who are trying to make some knives ourselves. Thank you!
Apologies on the blown out drawing parts - it was an older clip and I didn't quite have the exposure correct. It was also much easier to actually see before going through CZcams compression. I'll keep those in mind for future videos
Still a great video that imparts your experience!
People getting a taste of your knives with something more affordable is not a bad thing. People understand that expensive materials, complicated processes and high levels of finish will cost more. People are often happy to pay for customisation. Others just want something beautiful and functional.
I love that you are so transparent about your design process. I like how dramatically improved the end design is from your previous prototypes. The end product looks amazing would love to have one some day ❤
Thank you so much
Amazing 👏
It is Hard to make a simple knive that look good and works well to , your projekt look to me like a fusion between western and japanese kitchen knife , I like it , did you mention materiales ,handle and blade ,anyway good job your deffenently on to somthing
Interesting design perspectives as always Don ❤
Interesting to see another thought process and approach, as well as the differences when it comes to what I like a 'chef's knife' to have in terms of properties. I think I orient more towards French style knives more than any other for something of a signature shape with 3/4 flat from the heel and the last 1/4 having a slight upward sweep but it can vary a little too depending on the economy of material putting together a batch. Where I'm finding myself being drawn to is a bit like were you ended up having the size there. Like I've cranked out most of my knives in that 50mm 2" kind of height profile but I'm starting to slip up to 60-65mm as well having some benefits (for the larger hands) and also for moving food off the cutting board, loading it up so to speak like the Asian/Chinese chef's knife being a big 'spatula' of sorts!
Sometimes a lot of that is led by the customer too, like even some requests I'll get onto which are a very odd 3" 75mm high design that's quite unusual but they swear by it as being just how they like to cook with. Guess we'll see how that ends up and the work is never done, great to watch your video
Absolutely love hearing your thoughts as you create however on my android it's very difficult to see your pencil lines
Noice
I'm curious what metal-finish you're using for your most recent. It appears matte on camera, are you sand blasting/ etching/ or stone washing? I'm also working on finding out what matte finish is best. i like the look of blasted, but even with fine media it adds a lot of friction to slicing. I'd Really like to know! Keep up the good work, from one knife maker to another!
This is a stonewashed finish, but it's blasted first and lightly etched as well. It took us a long time to figure it out, we still get the blade up to 600 grit before it all because anything lower will still show obvious scratches.
We ALMOST have a successful blasted only finish, but that's even more finicky. The finish prior to blasting is super important, and then the compressor and sandblasters matter so much. The problem is that we were getting too visually splotchy results, even though it felt really smooth and silky. If you want to try that approach, get some 1000 grit glass media - that stuff is insane.
@@DonNguyenKnivesI would love to see a video about that process!
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Get some black paper and a white pen for this next time very hard to see the lines.