Knifewear Edmonton is Open

So, we opened our little Edmonton pop-up shop on Nov 20 and we will be there till December 31. How cool is that? We’ve had a warm welcome from that cool (even cold sometimes) City. If all goes well we might open a full time shop there. If you have any suggestions where it should be located please send and email or tweet.

So the shop is staffed  by  three rad folks. Jordan worked for a year or so at the Calgary store. He’s a great resource for the difficult questions and places rad guitar. Chad is a cooking/butcher/hunter/gatherer/backyard oven making guru. You are in great hands. Jeanette is a chef with dreams of starting a food truck in YEG. Awesome team!

The shop has tons of knives, basically our ‘Best of’ album. With knives in every budget and in every level of performance. Also have sharpening gear, cutting boards, meaty cookbooks, great food and coffee mags, and bits and bobs that everyone needs. Basically our whole shop. Make sure to check out the ‘Shaving Stairs’ we have staright razors, safetys, blades, brushes and potions/lotions for the modern wet shaving man.

Open 10-6 every day (even Sunday)

Twitter: @KnifewearYEG

Watch for possible pop-up shopd within ours.

8422  109 St

Edmonton, Alberta

Right beside Three Boars Eatery

Sharp knives, beer and meat. What more do you need???

Here's a nice little blog about the shop

http://letsomnom.wordpress.com/2012/11/24/knifewear-yeg/

Here's a great preview

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/life/food/Edmonton+food+notes+Knifewear+pops+from+Calgary+offer/7471990/story.html

Knifewear Calgary Farmer’s Market is Open

We opened our new Calgary shop at the Calgary Farmer’s Market. It’s the big one that over looks the Ikea. Ya, that one.  It’s right beside Silk Road Spice Merchants and not far from Chokolat. Just like a mini Inglewood.

Naoto is running the show there. He is a great sharpener and his knowledge of Japanese knives always surprises me. He does endless research and is beyond happy to share what he knows.

We offer our best selling knives, sharpening gear, knife storage, cutting boards, cookbooks and a bit of shaving gear. Next time you’re at the market pop in to say ‘Hi’, try a cool knife and maybe take advantage of our ‘Sharpen While You Shop’ service.

Twitter:  @KnifewearCFM

Thursday-Sunday

9am-5pm

Men's Grooming

If you’ve been to the shop recently you’ll know we’ve dived in to the deep end with shaving gear.

We have straight razors from Dovo and Iwasaki san. Also we have our own brand of  hand hammered single sided brand of straight razors coming. How cool is that?

Safety razors: Merkur, Feather and Edwin Jagger.

Double edged razors blades: Feather, Mekur, Lord and Derby

Brushes: Kent, Edwin Jagger, eShave, Vielong, Simpson, Vulifix

Potions and lotions:  D.R. Harris, eShave, Taylors of Old Bond Street, Edwin Jagger, Geo F. Trumper, Kent, Dovo, Castle and Forbes, RazoRock, La Toja, James Bronnley, Czech and Speake, The Dreadnought and Blue Beard’s.

Here is proof of the awesome power of proper man grooming gear. This Jeffery with his mighty beard.

Here is Jeffery after just one treatment from Blue Beard’s beard conditioner.  Need we say more?

*Just so yas knows; this is a faked picture. We used a fancy thing called PhotoShop to steal Farah Fawcett’s hair and stick on to Jeff’s face. The beard conditioner is great, but it didn’t do that.  Pretty cool if it could do that though. My legal council told me to include this factoid after he was fully tricked by the picture. Kinda funny huh?

Movember sale

Movember is a month for celebrating maleness, raising awareness of Prostate Cancer and raising money to battle this massively rotten disease. At Knifewear we love a good bit of facial hair and will take full advantage of any reason to grow a fabulous 'Mo'. Pop by the shop and 'Sponsor' your fave Knifewear 'stache.

 To celebrate great moustaches we are offering a 10% discount on all of our rad classic shaving gear for all 'Mo Brothers'. Just pop into the shop sporting your tremendous moustache and receive the discount for the duration of the month. We have, probably the largest selection of classic shave gear in Western Canada. Brushes from: Kent, Simpson, Vulfix, Vie-Long, Edwin Jagger, Merkur, e-Shave Safety Razors from: Murker, Edwin Jagger, Feather Double Edge Safety Razor Blades from: Feather, Merkur, Derby, Lord Straight Razors from: Dovo, Iwasaki san, Feather and Knifewear (hand hammered in Japan) Soaps, creams, pre-shave and post shave from: D R Harris, e-Shave, Edwin Jagger, Taylors of Old Bond Street, Kent, Dovo, RazoRock, Col. Conk, La Toja,  Castle and Forbes, James Bronnley and Czech & Speake 

Classic shaving is a true manly indulgence.

Edmonton Pop-Up

Hey Edmonton, we love you!! 
Look for our rad pop-up store on 109th, just off of Whyte and right next door to the RAD Three Boars Eatery.
We will be offering kick-ass knives, sharpening supplies, meaty cookbooks, LuckyPeach magazine, Edmonton exclusive shirts, knife storage and classic shaving gear. And super great news we will be offering knife sharpening!!
You are in good hands with Jordan (great past staff member of the Calgary shop) and Chad (ex-chef and a bit of a food amster about town). You are in great hands.

8422 109 St, Edmonton

(Beside Three Boars Eatery)

twitter: @KnifewearYEG

Calgary Farmer's Market

What makes more sense than shopping for meat, vegetables, spices and super-awesome Japanese kitchen knives under the same roof?

Our Market stall will open on November 15. Pop in to say 'Hi' Thursday - Sunday 9am-5pm. We will have great knives, sharpening supplies, books, mags, cutting boards and shave gear. The booth will be manned by Naoto from the Inglewood shop. Look for 'Sharpen While You Shop' service eventually.

Great for gifts!

510 - 77th Avenue SE, Calgary

Beside Silk Road Spice Merchants

market@knifewear.com

 twitter: @knifewearCFM

Christmas in Inglewood!

Inglewood,  it's a funny old place. We like to celebrate Christmas in November. Pop by for great deals and a fun way to get in the spirit. Most shops will have special deals and events. We may even have Pierre Lamielle signing books or something fun-ish.
 

Thursday 15 November  5pm-9pm

Free gift** from Masakage knives 

with every Masakage purchase (while supplies last)

**It's a hand forged letter opener. Totally cool and over the top.

Let's Beer!

It's almost here. Knifewear's Tongue Cutter IPA will be hitting the taps at all Brewsters and Beer Revolution locations around the middle of November, just in time for the opening of the new locations. 

Yes, Edmonton will get some kegs this time around. Call your local Brewsters to find out when they will have it. This time a full batch (20 kegs) was made and will hopefully last longer than 10 days like last time. 

Overly hopped, overy malted and kick-ass....if you like that sort of thing.

Keep Your Knife Sharp

Hey, for all of you that ask. Here's Mark from Knifewear Kelowna showing us how to use a honing rod properly. You rock Mark!

Moustache Style Guide