UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Jesus Hernandez



The blade smith Jesus Hernandez developed an interest in sword making at a very young age, but it never materialized until recently. A modest collector of Japanese swords and an instructor in the art of Tameshigiri (test cutting), his interest grew beyond the handling of the sword into the making of the sword. And as such, he started a lifelong path into the art of blade smithing.
Born in Spain in 1966, he spent most of his life in Salamanca. His professional career as a physician took him to the United States for training in 1990, where he met his wife Christine. This relationship resulted in a move to the USA to complete his medical degree and eventually establish a medical practice.
When he is not busy seeing patients, he dedicates his life to the art of making blades. He does all the work himself, from making the billet when working on a Damascus style or pattern-folded blade, to forging to shape, heat treating and polishing. He makes all the fittings that go along with the blade. His sense of aesthetics is based on the traditional pattern, modified to enhance the beauty of the lines and the flow of the forms into an object of art.
He now resides in Huntsville, Alabama. He has had no formal instruction on the construction of the sword. Rather, he has learned by reading and understanding metallurgy through the practical process of trial and error. At present, he enjoys meeting other bladesmiths so that he can learn from them and improve on what he has accomplished on his own.