Our good friend and client Grainger McKoy came to us with another\nproject a few months ago. It is a 12\u2019 cast stainless steel feather with a\nseries of 7 swan silhouettes cut out of stainless-steel sheet and attached to\nthe feather up to a height of 20\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As with all of Grainger\u2019s projects we had a sit-down meeting\nwith Grainger and his project managers Paul and Rob Beaty. It\u2019s a think tank\nsession to go over all the known details of the project. I say \u201cknown\u201d because\nevery project will have some unknowns as it proceeds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
During our project meetings we trouble shoot design vs\nfunction issues that could potentially derail a project. When you work with us,\nwe are your PARTNER. Your name and ours goes on every sculpture and it needs to\nbe the best it can be and last the test of time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of those concerns we had in the beginning were the\nconnection points of the swans to the feather and the thickness of the\nsheet-metal Grainger wanted the swans to be. We knew that the amount of\nmovement in the Swans in an outdoor setting would cause vibration throughout\nthe sculpture. We told Grainger about this and discussed some possible options\nto lessen the movement. At that time it was agreed that the project would move\nforward as is, but that once assembled we would evaluate the movement to\ndiscuss solutions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The big day arrived, and the sculpture was assembled with\nall the swans attached. It looked beautiful!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, once one swan was shaken, they all started to move\nand the vibration continued for a while. The sculpture is structurally sound\nbut the vibration that we mentioned in the first meeting was now undeniable. We\nall knew that something would have to be done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What to do next!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We went to work collaboration with Grainger on design\nelements that could be welded onto the sculpture to reduce the movement and\nstiffen the connection points. They were both functional and astatically\npleasing to Grainger. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou strive for perfection to achieve excellence\u201d – Grainger McKoy<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our good friend and client Grainger McKoy came to us with another project a few months ago. It is a 12\u2019 cast stainless steel feather with a series of 7 swan silhouettes cut out of stainless-steel sheet and attached to the feather up to a height of 20\u2019. As with all of Grainger\u2019s projects we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinksculpture.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinksculpture.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinksculpture.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinksculpture.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinksculpture.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinksculpture.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinksculpture.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinksculpture.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinksculpture.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinksculpture.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinksculpture.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}