Yes Dear, I'm down here working on your craft room!! - Page 18

I was so excited after reading this post, I nearly fell down the steps running to see how the theater came out.

.....But alas it appears your second scenerio is most accurate





HushBox .. long story short.. (Latest entry to my "WTF" list of auspicious moments)

-Built "Beautiful oak box", sanded with love and carefully finished to match room.
-Basked in aura of light while admiring my craftsmanship.
-Hung Box, mounted projector and lens for test.
-Attempted to "shine an Image" -Result- bottom 12" of image cut off becasue front lip interfeared with "light beam".
-Interferance caused by combination of additional recess due to lens and lack of clearance due to desire to maintain head height under box.
-Proceded to "hack" out front of hush box with jig saw in not so graceful jet lagged fashion.. (ie.. box no longer beautiful, not picture worthy)


Post Mortum Root cause: poor planning combined with poor planning

-Mike, Thank you!

-SM2000, The sconces will be mounted over the GOM panels between the columns, I'm just waiting on the elves to show up and finish the accoustical treatments behind the GOM.

Besides saving my thread from the archives of obscurity, I just wanted to take the opprotunity to say:

after paying almost $9 a foot, + investing a couple of hours of finish work in this 12' piece of oak.....





making an upside down and backwards cut on a compound angle ..... always makes my butt pucker....

Nope.. actually it turned out to be a "WTF!!!" moment. I had purcahsed 5 sticks of the crown many moons ago, Stained 4 of them to use for the theater. 2 had been put up already in the front of the room, and this was one of the ones for the rear. After I measured and made the first cut on this piece, I discovered that there was a signifigant difference in the profiles in 2 of the 5 pcs.



This made joining/mitering or even coping to the pieces already installed impossible to any acceptable standards... So I had to take down one of the pieces I already had up and use it in the back on one side.. then stain the last piece and use the 2 with the smaller profile on the other side... Kinda one of those 2 steps foward one step back things..


For this trim I was "sneaking" up on so it was more like.. cut 14 times.. with 14 trips from the basement to the saw.. I got calves like a chorus line dancer from going up and down the stairs


I hear ya.. I found my thread entering the black hole and grabbed it at the event horizon about a 1/2 a dozen post from the bottom of page 8....

I'm still trying to post updates as I go, however various delays, like the trim shown above keep postponing any signifigant updates and also like the trim it seems anything I touch lately heads south on me... Like this jar of Dye I had mixed up.. I spun around with a piece of wood in my hands and knocked it off on the floor...

I now have a large Pink spot in the middle of the shop where it stained the concrete.

Anyway here are a few shots of the RGB strips in the soffits.. Its really cool in person.. the entire room glows whatever color its on ....





My soffits are nearly complete around the entire room and the Hush box is in... After I get a couple more pcs of wood stained/put up.. Ill post a real update

On a side note... if anybody has any pointers for taking decent pictures in a dark room I'd like to hear em.. I see alot of great looking screen shots and other pics that I am not able to get close to. Wifes got a decent Sony camera so Im pretty sure I'm just missing some basics on which setting to use..

Brad

Tony.. agreed great pics of his theater.. Ill venture to say they were done by a prfessional photographer with more than a $400 digital camera..


I did get a tripod, and saw an immediate improvement in all my pics, but when i slowed down the shutter the pictures got "Grainy"


Hello you lucky "Completed" theater owner you!!,

No reflective material.. the white/beige stone i used does a decent job of reflecting light + i only ended up with a 1/4" reveal in front of the leds so my "lighting channel" is not that deep either.

Here is the ebay seller I got the lights from.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Reel-...Q5fAccessories

The strip is fairly standard, the controller and remote are a little on the cheezy side.. but whad'a expect for 38$, and this was good enough for concept validation. (Actually the first controller I received was a dud but the seller sent a new one immediately)

I've not taked the time to look at the loads or anything so there is still alot to do to integrate the leds into a real controller. My thought process was that as the popularity of leds continue to increase, additional (simple)solutions for integration into lutron/creston/graphic eye etc, would become available.

I ran cat 6's to the area I have the transformer and controller hidden so I could possibley play around with a DMX controller, but this is moving to the far end of my to do list, in the "things to piddle with later" category.. worst case I think I can use rf via a remote, for changing modes/colors etc.

I think us hoosiers still need a meet sometime.. but Im afraid if I wait until my theater is complete we would all need one of those Stairlifts to get to the basement

Are you are planning on visiting Cedia this year, sept 7-10? (or any of you other AVSDIYER'S)


Good Idea, I can see where that would have worked. I had actually tried to shim out the bottom of the thinner piece since I was using a small crown stop, and the shim could be hidden. This got it fairly close, but I still wasnt satisfied. To be honest, I wasted more time trying find a "workaround" then it took to remove what I had done previously and match the different profiles up on each side.

I just have a few extra nail holes to fill now, but hey.. whats an extra 20 when your talking about ~ 10,000

Im compensating for lack of speed with picture in this update.. I did manage to get past 2 items that had me spinning my wheels.. the hush box and the reveal on the bottom of the soffit..

For the past several months, only the front ~ 10ft of the soffits were started.

The rear still looked like this:


Once I built and mounted the hush box.. I finished the "boxes" for the rear soffits..



I also added these little, "side wings" for the hush box.. the intake air for the hush box comes in through the little vents in the bottom of the wings..



You can see on this side where I either missed measured or Mis cut the length of the side box and had to add a 1/2" spacer


Note: the hack job on the front lip of the hushbox.. had to scrap the front plate that held the glass from edmonds.. Ill remake it later..

Next I finished running the stone/crown/ and corbels around to the hush box..



Finished up another batch of wood....



Put up an 8" wide strip with a 2" reveal around the room..




I wanted to build up the front of the reveal to add a little "meat" to the bottom of the soffit .. so I added another piece of trim at the front edge





Then I used an 1 1/2" 1/2 round to finish off the front.. I lined it up with the cut in the other trim to get ~ 1/4 lip.. this worked out great for hiding the led strip without obscuring too much of the corbels..



Happy with the way this came out.. it makes for a nice clean line around the bottom...



Front.



Rear Corner:



Heres where it meets the side wing on the hush box


Notice the little panel in the side wing in the pic above..
Behind this is where I hid the transformer/controller for the RGB strips.



Still need to trim out the top of the hush box too..


Probably a list of reasons why I should not have done this.. but I divided the hush box into 2 compartments.. the rear one(shown without the divider) houses the "Cool Cube". I took this approach instead of building an access into the bottom of the soffits and placing it in there. Funny thing is since it moved the projector foward ~ 3 inches.. if I had done this first I wouldnt have needed to cut the front lip off of the box and scrap the portal plate..




The cool cube is dual speed, you can see the thermal sensor near where the exhaust for the projector is, it kicks it on automatically once temp get up.
Still lots to do inside the box. lining etc..




More to come eventually...
Movies by Christmas hopefully.... (yes Moggie.. This christmas!!)

Brad

Hanes.. your welcome to stop by.. on Wednesdays we have fishsticks and lime jello..

Tom.. I agree, I should have been done already.. I dont mind the building.. its the finishing everything that is starting to wear on me and delaying progress because its difficult to just start and stop if you only have a smaller time window.. so Im usually stuck waiting on the weekends to spray and if I happen to scrap something I basically loose a week waiting on finishing a new piece..

Hope the new Carvin amp solves your issues.. Im going to cedia hoping to learn a few things, I wont be buying anything yet..I've learned my lesson about buying equip before I actually need it and yup, Im in the pendleton area ~ 20 min NE of indy..

Moggie.. For the ceiling, I've resigned myself to the fact that Fiber is out.. I didnt plan properly for it and it would just be to difficult to get the fibers out there without major rework.. I did run power to the ceiling, I've tossed around the idea of building a coffer type of frame and "Paint" a star field then use the power for UV led's, but i need to study everything before I commit. In all honesty the celing is pushed towards the end of the list now, I figure I can address this area when the rest of the room is complete.

Regarding the front for the hush box.. the first one I built was kinda like a shadow box.. the sides angled top to bottom but the glass was held flat. I calculated the angle from the center of the lens to the center of the screen was ~ 12deg. so this put me in the 7-15 recommended range to prevent reflections..Im definately waiting until the projector and lens are in before building the next one.. My things to RE-DO list is getting as big as my to-do list..

I'm on a mission now to complete the major room elements and get a picture on the wall.. my next major task is to complete the panels for the rear wall.. and tie everything into the side walls.. Ill install all the treatments and get the room functional, before completing some of the "Cosmetic" details that basically go ontop of the wall panels.. Ie capitols, fluted columns (and Ceiling)etc.. I made a promise to my youngest (my movie buddy) to be watching movies in there by christmas, so Im really under the gun now.. not to mention the 2 1/2 year build is becoming a joke with friends and family

Brad.. Thanks!! I've not played with any custom settings, I've just been trying the preset settings ie Auto, twilight, beach, etc.. I'll see if I can figure out how to change the ISO setting.. PS I thought ISO was related to the type of "FILM" for conventional cameras


"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy"

Brad