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1 Make a miter-cut on the end of a length of molding. 2 Take a pencil and darken the leading edge of the mitered end. 3 Cut along darkened edge with a coping saw, angling the blade back as you follow the curved profile of the molding. 4 Smooth out the rough edges of the coped cut with sandpaper or a round file. 5 Install a square-cut length of ...
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Sep 19, 2023 · In this video I show you how to cut crown molding angles including cope, 45º + 22.5º inside and outside corners.https://youtu.be/_8n03J1E_ZA?si=MOxR1QAOsCSLi...
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This Old House general contractor Tom Silva shares some tricks of the trade for cutting crown molding for miters, scarf joints, and copes. (See below for a s...
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It’s cutting the molding's profile to fit the pieces snugly together. Unless your walls are exactly 90-degree angles in each corner, miter cuts might not be tight enough to fit your molding together perfectly. A coping cut removes the excess wood behind the edge of the miter cut to butt the pieces up together.[1] X Research source A miter cut is an angled cut that you’d normally use for ...Use a fine blade in your coping saw to reduce the need for filing or sanding. Thanks Helpful 1 Not Helpful 0Cut practice copes on a scrap piece of molding first to help eliminate mistakes and the need to fix them. Thanks Helpful 1 Not Helpful 0- 55K
Mar 1, 2019 · If the crown molding is flat against the fence, you’ll be cutting it at the intended spring angle—the spring angle is the angle the molding ‘springs’ from the wall, and the fence represents the wall! You’ll also notice that with the crown flat against the wall or your miter saw fence, the shoulder at the ceiling should touch only on the very outer edge of the crown.
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Feb 17, 2019 · Learn how to cope crown molding. WOOD magazine's Jim Heavey shows you how the professionals do it. Most corners are not a perfect 90 degrees so coping the ...
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Rather than use a compound-miter saw to cut crown on the flat, I’ve found that it’s faster to add a stop to the saw-table that reproduces the ceiling projection, then cut the molding upside down and backward. After measuring the projection, I rip a piece of plywood to the width of that measurement (in this case, 3 1/8 in.).
