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   Guest_ | Feb 10, 1999 02:45am | #1

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   lonecat

   Cant say I ever come across one but then I live and work in the UK.

   Over here we mark out the curve or make up a hardboard or ply template to work to. You can then either use an angle section which you can snip and bend around your curves or cut short sections of track and fix them down altering the centres to match the flow of the curves.

   As your building a knee wall then the best way to is cut out the shape you want from 3/4 ply place in position mark around the ply for your floor plates do as above and use the ply for the top.
   I hope thats clear enough if not post your email address and I will look out a detail for you.
   good luck Martin.

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   Guest_ | Feb 14, 1999 08:35am | #2

   *I just finished 4 curves corners on knee walls to divide up a large room into office space. I got a special bending track at my drywall supply house. It is hinged about every 3" and has metal strips along the sides to hold it together. It worked well, but it was expensive. ($28.50 per 10' piece, small labor costs)I used 2 1/2", but a 3 5/8" is also available. I don't no the name but will try and get one in the next couple of days

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   Guest_ | Feb 15, 1999 09:46am | #3

   *Joe Fusco- you are one hell of a busy man. Thanks for the photos, I'll do my best. The part I left out in my query is that this is an upside down knee wall, (not sure of the nomenclature on this) hanging from a 12 foot ceiling two feet down into the great room. That will make things a little more interesting, but I suppose my main concern is to keep things light. This hanging wall more or less cuts the ceiling of this big room in half with an S shape and then is a drop ceiling from the S back to the side wall, with a coffered section a foot deep back up into it. More complicated to try to describe without hand gestures than to build it. Thanks again.

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   Guest_ | Feb 16, 1999 09:27am | #4

   *Great pictures and techniques from Joe, but I think you mean a curtain wall as I underestand it. It may be considered a soffit as it has a drop ceiling on one side, but as I know the terminolgy, I would go with cutain wall.I get the sense that you have a large expance of room that you wish to spacially divide with something other than a straight false beam set up.25 Ga. steel studding is perfect for this purpose. I said I would check on the bendable track, and I will. You might also consider a modified version of above and cut the curve from plywood (single layer, top and bottom) and bulid you wall with occasional 2" to 3" pieces to accomadate the studs.As Drudge says "Developing....."

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   Guest_ | Feb 19, 1999 04:05am | #5

   *Hey lonecat check out http://www.flexc.com. They have what you need and it is a preety cool site.

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   Guest_ | Feb 23, 1999 12:17pm | #6

   *YO, JD. I went to that website, and they pointed me to a fairly local supplier where I went and bought an armload of that flextrack yesterday morning. It is perfect for my application and now I am back to doing that whole deal with steel as it will be much lighter. Thanks.