 Knife maker and potter Jon Schulps has been touring Renaissance fairs for 35 years. Schulps, stationed in a hand-built booth at the foot of Potters Row, is something of a Renaissance man himself. After studying architectural design at UCLA in the early '60s, he was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings and played as an offensive tackle before being drafted again, by the Marines, and sent to Vietnam.
When he returned, he found he wasn't interested in playing pro football anymore, so he poured energy into his craft. A friend turned him on to Patterson's fair in 1969. After some initial skepticism ("I didn't know if I could get along with those people, but then I saw that it wasn't a bunch of crazed-out hippies"), he made it a steady outlet to sell his wares.
Schulps has crafted period knives for Hollywood blockbuster movies such as "Braveheart," but his cash cow has always been Renaissance fairs. "It reconnects me with artists," he says. "We help each other out."
Article courtesy of Andy Isaacson, SF Chronicle 2005. Full text
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