Abstract: A kitchen knife featuring a secure handle formed by an angled slot located above the cutting edge receiving the fingers of a user and a grip located above said slot and attached to the blade piece, the angling of the grip and slot eliminating any twisting of the user's wrist and having an ergonomic effect in executing cutting, chopping or a slicing motion with the knife.

Abstract: A method for creating a simulated stone pattern surface or the like on a surface area in which a pattern, provided with a plurality of irregular cutouts defined by a web of interconnected strip portions, is adhereable to a surface for removal after the application thereover of a settable plastic composition, to define mortar lines, with the pattern being rectangular and designed to mate, in a plurality of orientations, with other different patterns.

Abstract: A method for creating a simulated brick surface or the like on a surface area which utilizes an adhesive tape provided with two series of marks for demarking the positions of a plurality of such tapes to delineate simulated mortar line areas. A plurality of the tapes are applied in a desired pattern to a surface area, a plastic settable composition is coated over the tapes and surface area, and the tapes are removed together with the coating on the tapes prior to final setting of the composition.