DPx Aculus 3D Release Video - June 2015 Media
Published: 9 years ago
The DPx Aculus is available exclusively on dpxgear.com and is limited to 100 units per year. The Aculus 3D is coming your way in June 2015 in three different configurations. Pre-order now at www.dpxgear.com/aculus.
DPx Founder Robert Young Pelton and LionSTEEL owner Gianni Pauletta were returning from the 2010 IWA trade show in Nuremberg, Germany when Pelton asked Gianni why no one has created the world’s simplest and most durable gentleman’s knife. Pelton wanted to create the lightest, strongest, and most elegant knife ever made. Pelton began sketching his concept while driving through the mountains. When they arrived back in Maniago, Italy, Pauletta and his crew began overcoming the formidable barriers of creating a thin tough folder from a single block of aviation grade titanium alloy. The DPx Aculus and LionSTEEL Ti Spine was born from this pure demand for perfection.
Pelton designed and LionSteel manufactured a knife with beautifully fluid lines, exquisite ergonomics, a frame milled from a single piece of titanium, and a tough blade of the highest quality steel. All pieced together with only two screws. The Aculus would be designed for undercover work, where professionals must dress in tuxedos but carry tools that cannot fail. The ergonomics had to work as a knife but also as a concealed hand held tool capable of dealing non-lethal pain to attackers. As the new blade unfolded Pelton noticed that the look and feel was that of a scorpion tail, a simple but deadly shape. The Aculus takes its name from a Scorpion’s aculeus, the tip of the scorpion’s stinger. Like the scorpion’s aculeus, the knife is both beautiful and dangerous. Each can easily inflict injury upon an unwelcome threat.
DPx Founder Robert Young Pelton and LionSTEEL owner Gianni Pauletta were returning from the 2010 IWA trade show in Nuremberg, Germany when Pelton asked Gianni why no one has created the world’s simplest and most durable gentleman’s knife. Pelton wanted to create the lightest, strongest, and most elegant knife ever made. Pelton began sketching his concept while driving through the mountains. When they arrived back in Maniago, Italy, Pauletta and his crew began overcoming the formidable barriers of creating a thin tough folder from a single block of aviation grade titanium alloy. The DPx Aculus and LionSTEEL Ti Spine was born from this pure demand for perfection.
Pelton designed and LionSteel manufactured a knife with beautifully fluid lines, exquisite ergonomics, a frame milled from a single piece of titanium, and a tough blade of the highest quality steel. All pieced together with only two screws. The Aculus would be designed for undercover work, where professionals must dress in tuxedos but carry tools that cannot fail. The ergonomics had to work as a knife but also as a concealed hand held tool capable of dealing non-lethal pain to attackers. As the new blade unfolded Pelton noticed that the look and feel was that of a scorpion tail, a simple but deadly shape. The Aculus takes its name from a Scorpion’s aculeus, the tip of the scorpion’s stinger. Like the scorpion’s aculeus, the knife is both beautiful and dangerous. Each can easily inflict injury upon an unwelcome threat.