 Thanks for checking this video out. Your mountaintop news video is coming up in just a minute. Did you know that it's going to be watched thousands of times, shared a bunch of times, likes, comments, you name it, it's going to be there. Why is it your ad here? Call me. Appalachian Artisan Center will be hosting a beginner blacksmith workshop Thursday, May 26th. The workshop will provide all necessary tools needed to forge a tomahawk and will be taught by local blacksmith Dan Eastup. The classes are on, for different levels we have, like, beginner classes, and we're going to start offering intermediate and advanced classes, like laminating steel and, you know, doing, when you come in for most of our classes, it's a simple knife, simple hatchet. It will teach you basically metal manipulation about heat treating, just mostly from the tool making side. Eastup hopes these workshops will make hand tools more accessible by teaching people to forge their own. I want to get it to where, you know, it's kind of helps people who don't have a lot of tools be able to, when they get ready to go home for a small investment for things they might already have be able to get started in this. Once you learn the basics of blacksmithing and knife making, almost any hand tool is within your possibilities. The blacksmithing workshops are typically held twice a month and registration is currently open for the tomahawk workshop. I try to make them fun and foolproof. I try to make them to where nobody goes home disappointed, you know. I keep it within the realm of doability. There are things that I can do that are easy for me that's not necessarily easy for someone who hasn't done it before. Registration is $85 and includes safety gear and supplies. To register, call the Appalachian Artisan Center at 606-785-9855. For more information, visit the Appalachian Artisan Center on Facebook. For Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.