Dayworks Inc

08/14/2025

After a crazy busy spring/early summer fabricating and installing corporate meeting sets, things have slowed down enough to be dangerous. One of the main dangers is I have enough time to answer the siren call of scrap projects. It starts with some large quantity of material left over from from a previous project and the germ of a thought: “There MUST be SOMETHING I can do with this...” In this case it's all the cedar planking from my deck which I recovered late last summer. It was truly past it's life for the deck. But, cut out some of the bad parts and there still a lot of good wood in there. One and a half days of sawing and surface planing and I've got a nice pile of artfully distressed cedar. I wonder what will happen next? In the meantime does anybody need a 55 gallon drum of cedar shavings? Maybe you have guinea pigs?

07/19/2025

Trump: nothing will be good enough for 'lunatics' requesting Epstein files

Donald Trump said on Saturday that he had asked the justice department to release all grand jury testimony in Jeffrey Epstein’s case. In a post on Truth Social, the president declared that even if the court gave its “full and unwavering support” that “nothing will be good enough for the troublemakers and radical left lunatics making the request”:

I've often thought the same thing about the freedom caucus.

04/29/2025

It's not all wood steel and paint around here. Sometimes I have to sew, sew, sew all the way to Mexico. (51' seam for a large fabric wall)

04/19/2025

Isn't this angle adorable? It's so acute.

03/30/2025

When you gotta turn the wood/metal/sewing/paint shop into a photo studio.... (We're launching a new product Gale force/Kidwind and SOMEBODY"S got to take the product shots)

03/14/2025

Beware the Temu my son....

It's come up a lot lately that clients have requested specific products/materials for some of their designs. I don't have problem with that, but it can be problematic where they “find” them. Always on the internet and frequently on Temu. It's not wise to build the entire look and budget on a product that in fact may not be available. In my own experience I've run into a lot of internet mirages. Products that a vendor will promise to ship overnight but take two weeks to “process” the order. In some case, they'll sit on the order for close to a month before regretting that they're unable to fulfill it. Of course in the event business this is the KISS OF DEATH.

In this case I estimated the project with a process that I would do myself from scratch as a backstop and promised that I would re-estimate WHEN we got the product in hand. Sure enough, while the vendor allegedly had the product, they only had enough for 10% of our needs. (and they wouldn't except credit cards, only Paypal and Venmo?! - is that a thing now?) I was not looking forward towards doing the slatwall myself so I kept researching and found a suitable replacement. It was much cheaper than making it myself and only little bit more than the non-existent wonder product. The project was re-estimated and it's moving forward now.

The key to having this all turn out well is time. We were all well in front of this and could address these issues in a deliberate fashion. If you want a custom look (and everything I do is custom) with a specific material in mind from a provider you haven't ordered from before please give yourself (and everyone else involved) some time.

03/04/2025

Back painting is a crucial if unglamorous part of building displays for events. Just like you can't yell fire in a crowded Theater you can't have stuff that can easily catch fire in a crowded ballroom. Most wooden surfaces must be sealed. Usually the back is sealed with latex paint mixed in proper proportion with fire retardant. The color is something we call the “House Munge”. A mixture of everything left over from previous projects. For the time being, it's baby blue!

02/28/2025

Back in the 80-90's my compatriots and I would sweat bullets trying recreate this kind of stone texture for any given project. Now you buy the sh*t from Wayfair. So Old.

01/15/2025

This month's big project is some corporate set pieces that involve a series of extruded arcs. Generally there are two ways to go about things like this. One is to simply have giant blocks of styrofoam wire cut to the shapes you want. However, this project needs to maneuver tight corners at the venue so it needs to be in relatively small pieces. Foam is is hard to seam well so I opted to make them out of thin plywood with bending stock and gussets reinforcing it's shape. Makes me think about what else you can make with lots of thin strips of material arranged to reinforce each other.

12/31/2024

12/19/2024

https://kidwind.org/art-challenge/?fbclid=IwY2xjawHRRT9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHa5BLHM7AycN3PnL9GEgI1pYrXUYAyTeItwKavwTD3Y5Qx9VnQu0WpBaYw_aem_AY0N_NAi0NRi31JpPGIDtQ

National Wind Energy Art ChallengeKidWind, supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office, invites students from kindergarten through 8th grade across the United States to create artwork on the theme “Beautiful Wind Energy.”  Four entries from each grade (K-8) wi...

12/14/2024

Some days you just have to take matters into your own hands and fix the 5-ton gantry crane controller yourself.