Today at the Clear Spring School the high school students made natural "crook" hangers from tree branches for their new classroom based on drawings from Eric Sloane's book, A Reverence for Wood. The process used in making the hooks was to saw the tree branches to length, secure them in a vise and use a hand plane to cut a flat surface for mounting. Then the ends and edges were whittled, sanded and formed to avoid sharp edges. On Monday we will mount them on boards so they can then be hung for use in the hallway at school. We also studied the use of natural crooks in both ship building and architecture in preparation for their next block.