Jaeco Knives

My name is Jonathan. I am a Christian, a husband, a father, a mountain biker, a kayaker, a hiker, and a camping, outdoors loving, eno sleeping city boy. The three most precious things in the world to me are my wife, my adventure loving son and my precious princess.





I set out to learn how to make knives in 2014 in hopes of building a very part-time business as a way to supplement our household income to put away funds for our kids college. After just 4 months of learning and making knives, I quickly realized I had created a monster. Before I knew it, I had 72 names on a waiting list of people wanting to purchase a knife I had made. I'm in my late 30's and needless to say, I wish I had started this 20 years ago. A good friend from college named Guy said to me just a couple months after my adventure started that "there are two great days in a person's life: the day they are born - and the day they realize why."
I can honestly say that for nearly a decade and a half, since college, I have been a "vocational wanderer", never quite finding my place. In my quest for vocational solidarity I recently finished a degree in conventional (manual) machining from the local community college. There I realized just how much I do enjoy working with my hands, especially taking something unassuming and making something useful out of it. Fast forward a year, I made my first knife, a pretty dang good first knife too. Then I made my 3rd, 4th, 5th....and so on. I couldn't stop. Didn't want to stop! Another knife maker, Pete Winkler of Cross Knives, told me that the key to getting good is to make one knife right after the other, and that's what I did. That's what I'll continue to do.





All of my knives are made 100% by hand from start to finish right in my garage here in Greensboro, North Carolina. They are made one at a time and there are no uses of premade knife blanks of any kind. Each blade starts its life as a single flat bar of high carbon steel purchased from the New Jersey Steel Baron. I use no CNC, waterjet or laser cutting machines at all in the knife making process. The only machines used are my Pheer 454 Knife Grinder and my Craftsman drill press. I do all of my own heat treating in house using a propane mini forge that I built myself. Numerous tests have shown the Rockwell hardness to be right on point in the 60Rhc +/-2 range.





The name of my knives has a meaning behind it, Jon And Erin's Company "Jaeco". Erin is my wife's name. I realize, without my wife and the support of my family none of this would be even remotely possible. She is my soul-mate, my best friend, my biggest advocate and my rock. To her, I owe everything. The mountain range in the logo signify the outdoor side of me. Though I am a city boy, I long for the woods, the hills and the rivers of the beautiful Earth God has created.





Thanks for joining me on this adventure!





Please feel free to contact me anytime, jaecoknives@gmail.com

My family, mountain biking and camping

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