What's up I'm Jonathan and welcome to maker tales where I'm sharing my maker
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all about these brilliant sound panels that I'm pretty sure that I'm gonna put
them in myself in this workshop because these, unfortunately, are a commission
by a client now I really want to show you very quickly and very simply how
easy it is to make these as I feel like most people who are showing how to build
these make a big giant 15 minute long video on something that is a very simple
build I was able to make five of these in four hours so let's get straight into
it fundamentally you only need three things
rock wool wood and fabric however I'm going the extra mile here and adding
upholstery lining fabric to the back Dacron fiber quilting to the front and
I'm using 100 millimeter RW 45 rock wool for between which means that my wood is
100 millimeters wide and I'm using 20 millimeter thick finished pine as for
the size of the panels are making the internal dimensions are 300 millimeters
by 1200 I've already pre marked the center and the spacing needed for the
pilot holes to ensure that I don't split the wood from here it's as simple as
screwing these bits of work together to create the basic frame make sure you use
the right screws that push the boards together and really do not over tighten
these types of screws as they will split your frame I then added the backing to
the frame working my way from one end to the other to make sure that I get out
all the creases and if you don't have a nail gun do it by hand flipping the
frame over I now put in the rock wall for your sake please wear gloves and a
mask as this is nasty stuff I also recommend using this saw as it
will cut the rock wool like a butter and it hardly makes an any mess from here I
attached my quilting once again our starting for one
the other to make sure it was as flat as it could be now going somewhere cleaner
than the workshop I now add the outer layer no sewing of any kind is needed I
just make sure the panel is placed in the center of my fabric and I just fold
the fabric inwards before securing it to the frame this time round I work from
the middle outwards to make sure that I don't pull the fabric too far to one
side or the other once one side is done I wrap the frame completely in fabric to
then be able to cut off the excess very roughly once cut I do the exact same to
the other side of the frame starting from the center and this time adding a
little bit of tension to make sure I create a nice flat surface on the front
side of the panel when it comes to the ends it's roughly the same idea except
we are going to do a very simple fold over it's loosely based on the hospital
corner of bed sheets but once this is done that's it you're done once these
are secured that is the panel made a few points that I need to address because I
haven't shown you how to mount these now the way I'm going to be mounting these
or by using these hooks you just screw four of them in and then you screw four
on wherever else you're gonna have them and you hook them up now you're asking
but Jonathan that puts them a distance away from the surface that you're
mounting them on they're not flush the wall that is the point a big part of
noise-canceling slash noise isolation slash dealing with sound is making sound
go through many materials the easiest way to explain this is this is the wall
and this is the sound panel when you have these two together a sound wave
comes in goes through your sound panel goes straight reverbs off the wall and
goes back through your sound panel there's not really that big of a change
material it's dense material going to a dense material however whenever you add
a gap now it's air so dense material having to change to air we're
reflect off a hard material having to go back through air and then go back
through your sound panel that somewhere don't know where don't quote me on this
is almost a 20 to 30% more efficient to have a good two and a half centimeters
slash an inch gap between the wall and your sound panel and that is a big
difference so I had to let you know because I'm not going to be able to
share this how to install them as it says in a client's place so yeah that's
how things go anyway enough of that I'm gonna now give you a sound test so that
you can hear the before and after with and without the sound panels without the
sound panels what's up guys i'm jonathan and want to maker tales this is a
sound test one two three. the test with the sound panels in what's up guys
i'm Jonathan welcome to maker tales and this here is a sound test one two three
and there you guys have it that's how to make these super efficient yet cheap
sound panels from the ground up as you see it really is that easy
and they sound great anyway guys thanks for watching keep making a let the quest
continue