Our trestle leg design
Dick Erickson is our other instructor. Mr. Erickson had 2 children gradudate from Collegiate about 25 years ago.
Mr. Erickson produced this drawing for us. It shows exactly how our table leg set will be constructed, and it includes dimensions. Mr. Erickson gave us 10 minutes to learn how to read this drawing and then gave us a quiz! We passed!
Info about our hatch cover
(From www.annapolismaritimeantiques.com)
More than 1 million Liberty Ship hatch covers and Victory Ship hatch covers were used to protect precious cargo as the Liberty Ships and Victory Ships delivered supplies to Allied Troops around the world during and just after World War II. Sixty years later, only a few hundred of these amazing maritime artifacts remain.
More than 1 million Liberty Ship hatch covers and Victory Ship hatch covers were used to protect precious cargo as the Liberty Ships and Victory Ships delivered supplies to Allied Troops around the world during and just after World War II. Sixty years later, only a few hundred of these amazing maritime artifacts remain.
Today we took the clamps off the chair we re-glued yesterday. How did we test our success ? We sat in the chair!
Next we moved on with our main project -- designing and building a set of legs for the WW II ship's hatch cover that is being shared with us by its owner, a Collegiate alumnus. Students looked at pictures of coffee tables with 4 legs, some with 2 legs, and even discussed single post pedestal bases. The class walked out to Mr. Hart's truck to look at the actual hatch cover - it was very heavy. Our leg set will have to be sturdy. Lastly, we walked to Keith Evans' office and studied a coffee table built by last year's class. This cherry table was more formal, and it had four, square-sectioned legs. After a class vote, a decision was made to develop a trestle base for our hatch cover. We'll post some pictures of this style of leg design soon.
Here is a picture of the hatch cover:
Next we moved on with our main project -- designing and building a set of legs for the WW II ship's hatch cover that is being shared with us by its owner, a Collegiate alumnus. Students looked at pictures of coffee tables with 4 legs, some with 2 legs, and even discussed single post pedestal bases. The class walked out to Mr. Hart's truck to look at the actual hatch cover - it was very heavy. Our leg set will have to be sturdy. Lastly, we walked to Keith Evans' office and studied a coffee table built by last year's class. This cherry table was more formal, and it had four, square-sectioned legs. After a class vote, a decision was made to develop a trestle base for our hatch cover. We'll post some pictures of this style of leg design soon.
Here is a picture of the hatch cover:
Fall 2011 class.
We have 7 Middle School students, and we met for their first class today. Our project this fall will involve creating a set of legs for a WW II Liberty Ship hatch cover owned by a Collegiate School alumnus. This wooden nautical antique will then be able to be used as a coffee table. Before digging into this effort, we took time today to do a little repair work on a faculty member's chair which has been in use at school for the past 20 years. Here are a few photos.
Tomorrow, we introduce the hatch cover project to our young woodworkers! Come visit our blog again soon - we have class every Monday and Tuesday for about 10 more weeks.
Steve Hart (woodworking class instructor)
Director of Planned Giving
Collegiate School
Richmond, VA
shart@collegiate-va.org
804-741-9713
Co-instructor - Dick Erickson, past parent at Collegiate School and woodworker, par excellence.
Course Description:
Woodworking Begins September 26 for the fall class (5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th graders) and November 28 for the winter class (5th and 6th graders).
Have you ever been to a maritime museum and seen diving helmets, harpoons, ship figureheads, and other marine artifacts? This year’s woodworking classes will get to work first-hand on one of these nautical antiques. We will be refinishing a wooden hatch cover from a World War II naval ship. The owner of the hatch cover is a ’66 Collegiate alumnus, and he is eager for our students to help design and build a set of legs to allow the hatch cover to serve as a table ! The hatch is made of longleaf yellow pine (heart pine), a valuable but commercially-extinct cousin of our modern southern pine. With some luck, we will locate some of this rare wood for the new parts of our project. Generally, the only way to obtain true heart pine these days is to go through a firm which renovates century-old warehouses and removes/recycles the original heart pine support beams.
Come learn how to use traditional hand tools: bronze planes, bench chisels, Japanese saws, rasps, squares and marking gauges. Each session is limited to 8 students and will include a field trip to a fully equipped woodworking shop. Steve Hart, Collegiate Director of Planned Giving, and Dick Erickson, past parent, are the instructors. Woodworking meets Mondays and Tuesdays during Activity Period. There is a $30 fee for this class.
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