WOODBURY, Ky. (WBKO) - The Hershel House Woodbury School is taking a different approach from modern technology by teaching skills that built early Kentucky and America, including a recent weekend-long seminar on creating tomahawks.

The school focuses on traditional American crafts using period-era technology and skills ranging from leatherwork and blacksmithing to woodcarving and blade sharpening.

“It’s funny how many people get so excited about a tomahawk,” said blacksmith and bladesmith Daniel Casey, who instructs at the school. “It’s just a basic hatchet, but it’s a very iconic thing of American history. Obviously, lots of Native Americans carried them, and all the pioneers had some sort of belt axe as well. A cool part of it is that we’re using old rifle barrels to make the tomahawks

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