Spandex build in progress

I spent the long weekend working on getting my screen build a bit further down the road toward completion. I'm doing a 126" silver over white screen using 1x4 poplar and Screen Tight Splines. Have the screen up on the wall, and will work on wrapping moulding in velvet and affixing over the next couple of weeks:


Frame build in progress. It's pretty hot out there!


Screen wrapped and ready to go on the wall.


Bobby DeNiro and his little friend.

Many many thanks to everybody in this forum for their collective knowledge sharing (Especially MississippiMan and Mephisanid).
Edited by SuperChupe - 9/5/12 at 7:22am

My original plan was for a smaller screen, but that was what worked out given where I had to put my in-wall speakers given the stud cavities.

The Screen Tight stuff works great. Since I was doing a two-layer screen, I made use of the dual channels pretty effectively. The inside channel i used for my under layer (in my case, white), and then the over layer (silver) went in the outer channel. It's really a four-handed job, so make sure you've got helper. One person to stretch the screen and another to lay the spline in the channel and use the spline knife (like a little pizza cutter) to knife it in. Be aware of how evenly you are stretching the spandex--it's very forgiving if you're using the 4-way stretch moleskine from Spandex World that most ppl on here use, but you could end up with a bit extra on whatever side you strech last. The fourth corner may end up needing a staple or two to keep the edge neat. But, since you've put pretty even pressure on the spandex all the way round, using the spline, it's not going to cause a problem.

Note that while I and others who've done this and put pictures up mitered the corners of the screen spline, their website indicates that you don't need to, and after working with it, I'd agree. It was just convenient for me to do since I had the mitre saw set up already for the frame.

I did use Screen Tight (both the channel piece and the splines), and as MichaelG said, HD didn't stock them in our area, but Lowe's did.

I didn't take any pics of the application. It's a lot easier if you have a helper to stretch the spandex while you are laying down the spline and using a spline knife to push it all (spandex and spline) into the channel.