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What’s the Deal with Honing Steels?

What’s the Deal with Honing Steels?

When it comes to honing steels (that large metal rod in your knife block), we at House of Knives often hear this question, “That will sharpen my knives, right?” Well, unfortunately no—but they will keep your sharp knives sharp. How you ask? To explain, we must …

Enter to Win a RUGER Follow Through Compact Sport Knife by CRKT! (CLOSED)

Enter to Win a RUGER Follow Through Compact Sport Knife by CRKT! (CLOSED)

UPDATE: We have a winner! Congratulations to JP! Stay tuned for the next giveaway coming up very soon! UPDATE 2: RUGER Knives are now available in our webstore. The 2016 Las Vegas Shot Show has come and gone, but the work for our buying team has only …

How to Stay Strong in Your New Year’s Resolutions

How to Stay Strong in Your New Year’s Resolutions

New Year’s Day has come and gone, and with February on the horizon, many of us have already started to loosen the reigns on our once seemingly-steadfast new year’s resolutions. The Washington Post reported last year that 25% of people who make new year’s resolutions break their …

5 Fire Starting Products to Help Keep us Warm in Bad Weather

5 Fire Starting Products to Help Keep us Warm in Bad Weather

In our earthquake survival post last month we mentioned that building a fire is something most people have never attempted, nor know the first thing about. Simply put, us city-dwellers would be hooped if we needed to start a fire in an emergency situation, so we decided …

10 Things You Need to Survive an Earthquake

10 Things You Need to Survive an Earthquake

The House of Knives vision is To Improve Lives through Education and Innovation, so it’s safe to say we value being prepared. But in light of the recent windstorms and the 4.8 magnitude earthquake in the Vancouver-Victoria region, we’ve realized that the vast majority of British …

How to Carve a Turkey With House of Knives & Global Morning News BC

How to Carve a Turkey With House of Knives & Global Morning News BC

House of Knives President Andre Eng was up bright and early again to show viewers of Global Morning News BC how to carve a turkey. He was joined by Steve Darling and Sonia Deol from the Global BC News Team, and it seems they definitely had …