Building moveable walls

[Kaffe]

Hello, fellows! Just for fun, I'm going to post pictures of the wall building I'm doing with a couple of friends of mine (mainly just one other dude, though).

How to look at the plans for the moveable walls.

How to use a hand saw.

How to saw through OSB.

How to eat after a day of work.

How to use a jig saw.

How to fail at taking a picture of oneself working.

How to cut through isolation with a kitchen knife.

How to contemplate the hinge setup.

How to proudly lean on ones newly built prototype of a moveable, foldable, audio dampening wall.

How to pretend you are a bikini model, showing of a fine, new sports car.

How to do a product shot.

It's not finished yet. We're going to add wheels to it today as well as cover it all with a gray mat. Final results will be posted later. Tool wise, we've used what we could get our hands on as I own no tools beyond the stuff used for computers, save a hammer and a few screw drivers.

[RawDepth]

Well, you've certainly made a fine looking wall. Especially considering the severe lack of power tools. You've also made great strides in the eating, leaning, contemplating, and modeling departments. 

Did you call this a sound-dampening wall? I would question the OSB being on both sides depending on what function/performance you desire. Where did you get the plans for this wall?

[Kaffe]

Well, you've certainly made a fine looking wall. Especially considering the severe lack of power tools. You've also made great strides in the eating, leaning, contemplating, and modeling departments. 

Did you call this a sound-dampening wall? I would question the OSB being on both sides depending on what function/performance you desire. Where did you get the plans for this wall?

We're just learning by doing and there weren't any plans except the ones we made up ourselves. There will be more pictures up with the mat covering up the OSB (waiting for the glue to dry as I type this). As you say, we've figured that having OSB on both sides might not be all that good, so for the coming walls, we'll make one side with asfa boards (the surface facing the person recording) and the back side with OSB to give it greater effect. It's just supposed to compensate for lack of sound dampening in the room (not saying there won't be any, just a compliment to what will be) as well as being able to form a room of our liking for whatever we are recording. It will also make it easier to make a good room for recording drums at another location, as this place will not be big enough for that.

[stainless]

as a suggestion (which may be completely unwarranted and without any form of merit-

next panels perhaps try slat on one side (Heimholtz resonator) and just fabric over the insulation (especially for drums)

I'm not sure if 2 reflective sides is going to have the desired result (and as RawD mentioned)  you may be 'aiding" the resonant ability of your wall, rather than hindering it (and it may be very frequency specific

my hats off to you for persevering with hand tools- thta's determination ! 

[Kaffe]

Oh, indeed, it won't be effective at all. We had that figured out way before completion, but wanted to go through with the design for experience. We will now make changes to the wall built first and do a couple of other ones with a different design. The wall version 0.1 looks like this: http://i55.tinypic.com/f5aekx.jpg

One OSB will be removed. We're still deliberating on what to cover the other side with -- perforated hardboard covered with fabric, asfa board or just fabric.

We're primitive in this building process -- and damn proud of it. ;]

[Kaffe]

Here's a better version of the walls. They'll probably do a quite decent job, easy to stow around and as they are foldable, can easily be transported if necessary. Woo!

How to cut the fabric.

How to staple.

How messy it can get.

How it looks.

How all three looks.

[stainless]

I especially like the "How messy..." pic!