WELCOME TO J. DRAKE KNIVES

Hi. Some things about me and some other things too..... I am an outdoorsman, hunter, craftsman, engineer, and artist. I enjoy making things and creating things of exceptional quality that will last. J.DRAKE KNIVES was born after years of hunting big game such as elk, caribou, deer, antelope, and wild boar in places like Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and California. 

My shop has slowly become equipped with fine machinery and tools that assist me in producing fine products. It's more fun when I can do things really well because of quality tools and quality machinery, and I want to carry that quality into my knives for others. My skills go back to when I made grandfather clocks and custom woodwork in my late teens, and probably even before then. At an early age, I raced to fix and build things. Maybe I thought my two brothers were gonna get to it first. It was clearly passion looking back, though, as I had a vision of some sort of end result and saw it as a wild and fun adventure to figure out how I was gonna get there. I have an undergraduate degree in engineering/business and a graduate degree in business. Currently, I am a business owner in an unrelated field.

My work is done out of Murrieta, California, where I live with my wife, son, and daughter. Both my wife and I love the outdoors and feel a special connection and energy when amidst it all. And it looks like my kids may be following in our same footsteps. Even our three English labrador's seem to rip around like there's no tomorrow when we arrive at our outdoor destinations.