About Me

James Gibson is an ABS journeyman knife maker and designer of several knives for the ESEE brand. Born and raised in the Smoky Mountains, James has a passion for the outdoors that led him to learn survival skills in 1976, then knife making in the early 1980s, and later, flintknapping.

 

He’s trained with legendary outdoorsmen such as Tom Brown, Steve Watts, and Mors Kochanski and even holds a 6th-degree black belt in Ninpo Tai-Jutsu under famed Ninja Grandmaster Masaaki Hatsumi. James Gibson is an instructor at Randall’s Adventure & Training (ESEE Knives) and owner of Knob Creek Forge in Seymour, Tennessee.