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House of Knives
About House of Knives
Good knives are one of the few kitchen purchases genuinely worth handling before you buy, since balance and grip are personal in a way no photograph settles. House of Knives trades from 2271 Harvey Avenue in Dilworth, inside the large shopping centre that gathers close to ninety businesses at one address on Kelowna's main east west arterial.
Cutlery shops carry far more than the block on a kitchen counter suggests. Chef, paring, bread and boning knives sit alongside shears, cleavers, steels and whetstones, and most also stock pocket and outdoor knives, multi tools, razors and the sort of small gear that makes a decent gift. Sharpening is often offered over the counter, and that is the part worth knowing about, because a dull knife is more dangerous than a sharp one and almost every household has a drawer full of them. Steel type, edge angle and whether a blade is stamped or forged all change how it behaves and how often it needs attention.
If you are bringing blades in for sharpening, wrap them properly and call first about turnaround at +1 250-868-8584, since the weeks before the holidays are the busiest stretch of the year for that work. Anyone shopping for camping or hunting gear should know that provincial and federal rules govern what may be carried and how, and a counter conversation is a sensible place to sort that out. The shopping centre keeps a page for the shop at orchardparkshopping.com, useful around long weekends, when mall times differ from the rest of the year.
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In the Dilworth neighbourhood of Kelowna.
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