My "Out of Africa" theater is "FINISHED" - Page 8

Hi NGiovas, thank you very much!

Greg, me fellow Southern Hemispheer-er, how's it mate? I think I'm with you about the Ruggas and cricket these days, but I won't say it out loud - this country is Rugby-crazy and someone might try to assasinate me if they hear what I've said!!

Tony, aaw mannn! Your HT looks great so far! That entrance of yours must be one of the most impressive ones I've seen

RT, thanx buddy. Those stripes sure is a pain in the arse to align, but when its done I think it'll look nice. FYI, I'm no ordinary baboon, I'm an anal baboon WITH OCD

So far I've completed all the side panels - 12 of them - my back is off I think I've used about 5500 staples so far for the 12 - there's six more for the back and then the chair rails and also the top cover for the panels. I took the last 4 packs at our hardware store, I hope they get new stock soon.

Thank you very much for all the compliments guys, I really appreciate it!

I'll post more pics as soon as I can.

Will

Thanx, TheSly. Your HT is also comming on very nicely! You are very skillfull yourself mate. Very soon you'll have your "Little Room Down Under"

UPDATE TIME!!!
I've made great progess - it really starts to look like something now!

All the panels are finished, as well as the chair rails and top cover part of the panels.

This pic shows the start of the chair rails:
The things start of with two pieces of MDF, one is 45mm broad - it's the part that will go in between the two panels, and the other is 65mm broad, it's the part that will show on the front side.


Next was to get the mid-line on both sides to align the small piece in the middle of the big one and also for a guide on the other side were to shoot the brad nails through.


Put one the glue:


And "stick it down, stick it down oh babyyyy, stick down...." (I'm in a good mood today )


Then come the nails - ka-du, ka-du:


We end up with this T-pieces:


Now comes the real work - to cover them with fabric and add the halfround in the mix. I cut some of the remaining fabric into strips, making sure the red felvety part is in the centre.


Using the spray-on glue I covered both the backside of the fabric strip

and the front side of the MDF:


and stick it down while pulling it tight:


Next I sprayed both sides with glue


and folded the material over and stuck it down.


I repeated the whole process and ended up with 8 partly finished chair rails:


I cut 16 pieces of 19mm meranti halfround, two each of the same length for each rail:


The next thing I did was to cut strips of the same black material that I've used for the columns, again, two strips for each rail:


I placed the fabric strip, face down, onto the chair-rail, flush to the one side:


and stapled it from top to bottom while pulling it thight:


I put down the halfround on top of the black strip, also with its edge on to the edge of the rail:


Using brad nails again, I nailed the halfround to the rail as shown:


After turning it over, I cut off the protruding nails with a side-cutter and filed it down to the wood with a metal file. I the folded the black material over the halfround:


And after changing the brad nails to staples in the airgun AGAIN I stapled the fabric to the back of the rail:


After turning it over, It looks like this:


One side down, one to go.

Both sides done and ready to finish of the edges:


I didn't show the edges' stapling in detail, but it is basically the same as with the panel corners. Here's the result of the process:


Here is how the chair rail looks installed between the two panels:


After wrapping all 8 chair rails, it was time to do the little ones for the panels around the doorframe. Here's a pic of the little one before I trimmed the loose frays of material: (looks kinda like a little peck.. never mind )


Here's the bigger one. The edges on these two had to be very neat because part of it will show after the trim on the door is put on.


At last, the last pieces of chair-rail is installed:




And now, I give to you, straigth from the press, with chair-rails and top cover panels installed - THE FINISHED PANELS!!









Here's a close-up side shot of the chair-rail - I'm one happy camper


Till later
Will

Thank you GWRC and Spaceman.

Thanx Brian and Monkeyman! Both your HT's are swell as well

RT, thanx for your kind words, I appreciate it very much! All the positive comments is very encouraging.

Have a great day!!

Will

Here's a pic of some of the chaos before the cleanup

calimark and Jon_B, thank you guys, much appreciated compliments. It's comments like these that make me glad that I chose that specific material. I had my doubts at first. The wife also likes it, so it is good

Calimark, 'bout the wife, NO, its my little place! I ask her what she thinks about stuff I made in the HT and her opinoin, but the final choice is MINE - this HT is "....my preciousssssss......."

Thor, thank you, I hope I don't dissapoint you as we go along

Thank you J_P_A, plagiarize away!

I've just delivered the MDF for the DVD/Blu-ray rack. I hope I didn't over-engineer this thing again. It took 3 and a half full sheets of MDF to make all the parts Hope it will look OK. I think that I'll be starting on the equipment rack and media rack next, or maybe the screen wall panel.

I'm thinking of making the screewall panel in one big piece to avoid the joint lines that will show when using a few panels. The only fabric I can find in the material shops that'll be broad enough to do this is blackout cloth used for blocking out the sun behind curtains. It's black but it looks like it could have a subtle sheen - something not wanted on the screenwall around the screen.

I'll have to check it out further and see if it'll work.

Hi Dale and Mario, thank you very much guys, both your HT's is comming along very nicely as well. You probably feel exactly like me at this stage - I can't wait to sit down and watch my first movie in my own theater for the very first time