About Jerry Hossom

After 35 years in corporate America, working in the field of biomedical instrumentation, I’d finally had enough of politics and regulation and decided to turn a long time and enjoyable hobby into a full time profession. In 1997 I went from successful business executive to struggling knifemaker, quickly learning you don’t do this for the money. You become a knifemaker because you’re passionate about knives and believe you have something to contribute to the craft - or you keep your day job and make knives as a hobby. Fortunately, like many other full time knifemakers, my wife had a pretty good job so she and our four children didn’t have to live on the modest wages I was earning back then. Thankfully they still don’t

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