Re: Lightweight Theater walls

"Christopher Jahn" <cjahn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Double skin" would mean putting Canvas or plywood on both
>> sides of your flat.  Instead of plywood you could also use
>> 1/2" masonite, or hard board one side finished.
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> Which completely undermines any effort to make them lightweight.
>

Masonite is indeed heaver than sin!  My flat covering of choice is 1/8
luan 
covered with muslin.  When you are making 4'x12' flats, the muslin covers 
the seam between the 4x8 and 4x4 pieces and provides a great painting 
surface.  It adds only marginally to the weight but the seam hiding and 
better painting surface make the small weight difference worth while.  For

the OPs application, I prefer Hollywood flats since they clamp together so

easily.  Every user has to decide if that convience outweighs the storage 
space loss.

Lately I have been having trouble finding 1/8".  All our local lumber
yards 
have stopped carrying it in favor of 5.2 mm which is both too heavy and
too 
expensive.  I may have to see if I can get the university and community 
theatre to go in with me on a pallate if I can't talk Lowes or Home Depot 
into stocking it again.

Peter