Calgary Tours

Super fun news. Patrick Dunn of InterCourse Chef Services is offering culinary tours of Calgary. Knifewear is one of the big stops. We will offer a quick little 'Cut Like A Chef' class for the tour. The next on takes place this Saturady (July 24). For more infor please see the link below. I look forward to seeing you on the tour.

http://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=c96441981536d2b798c4a6422&id=0fca0fdbdb

Calgary food in Vancouver Sun

Nice article about  Calgary food in the Vancouver Sun today. Some of my fave restaurants were mentioned as was a certain knife shop.  As any good report about Calgary's food scene should be, Inglewood was featured prominently.

http://www.vancouversun.com/life/From+Cowtown+culinary+capital/3251994/story.html

Kawamura san will be in the shop Sunday

We are super excited to announce that Kawamura san from Konosuke Knives will be in the shop this Sunday (July 11) from 12-4. He has promised to bring some super sexy stuff and at a special price. Pop by to say Hi. He would love to meet you. This is one of Konosuke knives. It's not shiny, but an actual mirror.

The Shirts are HERE!!!!!

Super great news. Our new yummy horse themed shirts have arrived. We only had 100 printed and the first 20 went out the door yesterday and today. Look around town for some foodie celebs sporting our super cool shirts. Get 'em while we still got 'em.

Calgary Stampede is coming!!!

To celebrate the Calgary Stampede we have new shirts designed by our fave designer, Pierre Lamielle.

The shirts have a yummy horse theme and are printed in classic Rock and Roll cliche colours (white on a black t-shirt) on Hanes tagless shirts. They will be available in dudes sizes (sm, med, lg, xl, xxl) and only $20.

We have printed only 100 shirts, so first come first serve. Give us a bell at the shop to reserve yours. 403 514-0577

Ya hoooo!!!

MEDDIA WHORE ALERT!!

Calgary's weekly arts and listings magazine, FFWD, just did a fun little feature of moi. I am feeling a bit of a riockstar again. It will be leather pants and sunglasses at the shop for the next week....again.

http://www.ffwdweekly.com/article/life-style/your-face-here/kevin-kent-owner-knifewear-5847/

There is also a great write up of Sugo Restaurant and Bar. Nice one Angelo, I'll pop in for some happy champers with you later today.

As a side note we have a special Calgary Stampede shirt coming out next week for just $20. It is a cool new design by Pierre Lamielle http://www.kitchenscraps.ca/ . A bit offensive to some even. I like it.

Masakage Knives launch party

Masakage Knives started as bit of fun for Shibata san and myself. While in Banff (January 2009) we spoke about what we loved  about kitchen knives and what would make our perfect knives. By June we had our first line available at Knifewear.  A good bit of fun really.  Now we are ready to launch Masakage Knives. We currently have seven lines each consisting of 2-9 blades.

Shibata san is Hiroshima's top knife sharpener and I am arguably Canada's largest knife nerd. At least the nerdiest. We have been sending prototypes back and forth, selecting the steel we want for each line, choosing handles, adjusting shape, height and width of individual blades, fine tuning the appearance of each knife and naming each line. This was/is one of the most fun times of my life. I believe we've created kitchen knives that are new, unique and desirable.

Masakage knives are all handmade in Japan by four of our favourite blacksmiths. Kato san, Anryu san and Kuroskai san hail from Takefu. Kageura san works on Shikoku Island near Tosa.

The knives represent what we love in kitchen knives. High performance, sexiness and personality. As you can imagine we are more than a bit proud of these knives.

 Currently Masakage knives are available exclusively through Knifewear.

Our launch party for Masakage Knives is at Knifewear on Tuesday 4 May starting at 6pm. Beer by Wildrose Brewery and food by Sugo. Hope to see you then.