Another interesting video with an excellent model. It has been a long time since I last installed any kind of trim in a house. Roughly 35 years ago, I attended a two-year long construction trades program where the students built essentially a double-wide modular home each year. Among other things, I learned to cut and install trim. While we installed tongue and groove knotty pine ship-lap boards on the ceiling in the family room, I believe that we only used rectangular shaped stock to cover the area of the wood ceiling where it met the walls - so the students never learned to install crown molding in that program. Your cope cut in the corner of the crown molding looked great. We were taught to use cope cuts for baseboard molding inside corners, as it helps to hide gaps when the boards slightly shrink or the house settles, just as you stated in the video. When cope cutting, we were told to cut a 45 degree bevel on the end of the baseboard (so that the face is shorter than the back), and then when using the coping saw to slightly back-cut when cutting the profile so that only the point of the profile contacts the mating baseboard - I suspect that back cut was to address issues where walls did not meet at exactly 90 degrees. We used a Delta Sawbuck (essentially, a portable radial arm saw) to cut the molding. I do believe that we ever created outside corners with the baseboards. The technique that you used is interesting. I am wondering if a cheap digital bevel gauge (such as the one created by General) would be a good effective middle ground between the manual calculation approach and the Festool solution? If I were installing regular baseboard trim 35 years ago that required an outside 90 degree corner, I would probably cut the first board to exactly 45 degrees, and then tweak the 45 degree angle as necessary on the mating trim board (then hide the imperfections with the same wax stick that we used to hide the countersunk nail heads). When joining two baseboards end to end, we were taught to use a 45 degree bevel on the end of the baseboard, like you used for the crown molding, and that bevel would help hide imperfections as the house settles - much like the carpenter that you mentioned in the video. I like the approach that you used, as it will likely result in a better looking result after a few years of house settling. However, that approach would likely add a few minutes to the construction time for each joint, and in that time a good finish carpenter using a nail gun might have installed several additional pieces of baseboard trim - we used regular hammers, nails, and nail sets to install trim, so the time savings would not have been as significant back then. Biscuit joiners were rare roughly 35 years ago - I bought my Porter Cable biscuit joiner in 1991. Have you ever tried creating molding? I have a Foley-Belsaw 12 3/8" planer (actually I have three, but one is missing a few parts) that is able to cut crown molding and other types of molding. The previous owner of the planer paid around $3000 for the planer in the late 1990s, and used several styles of molding knives in the planer to create various type of molding for his woodworking business. I bought the planer with several molding knives at a bargain price in an estate auction in the mid-2000s, and never used the planer for creating moldings. I just recently bought a Pantorouter, and with its tilting table, I am thinking that the unit might also be able to create interesting moldings with the right router bits.
Thanks as always for watching! Much appreciated... Yeah, I thought after filming that I should probably have noted that my video is more targeted towards the person who only has one room or one home to do in terms of crown molding. I'm sure if you have multiple homes to trim out, time is also a big consideration. I've never tried making my own molding. One piece of equipment that I don't have, that I've thought of purchasing is a shaper to do just that. However, my lumber supplier has so many different types of molding products, they've been able to meet my needs so far... Thanks again!
Another interesting video with an excellent model.
It has been a long time since I last installed any kind of trim in a house. Roughly 35 years ago, I attended a two-year long construction trades program where the students built essentially a double-wide modular home each year. Among other things, I learned to cut and install trim. While we installed tongue and groove knotty pine ship-lap boards on the ceiling in the family room, I believe that we only used rectangular shaped stock to cover the area of the wood ceiling where it met the walls - so the students never learned to install crown molding in that program.
Your cope cut in the corner of the crown molding looked great. We were taught to use cope cuts for baseboard molding inside corners, as it helps to hide gaps when the boards slightly shrink or the house settles, just as you stated in the video. When cope cutting, we were told to cut a 45 degree bevel on the end of the baseboard (so that the face is shorter than the back), and then when using the coping saw to slightly back-cut when cutting the profile so that only the point of the profile contacts the mating baseboard - I suspect that back cut was to address issues where walls did not meet at exactly 90 degrees. We used a Delta Sawbuck (essentially, a portable radial arm saw) to cut the molding.
I do believe that we ever created outside corners with the baseboards. The technique that you used is interesting. I am wondering if a cheap digital bevel gauge (such as the one created by General) would be a good effective middle ground between the manual calculation approach and the Festool solution? If I were installing regular baseboard trim 35 years ago that required an outside 90 degree corner, I would probably cut the first board to exactly 45 degrees, and then tweak the 45 degree angle as necessary on the mating trim board (then hide the imperfections with the same wax stick that we used to hide the countersunk nail heads).
When joining two baseboards end to end, we were taught to use a 45 degree bevel on the end of the baseboard, like you used for the crown molding, and that bevel would help hide imperfections as the house settles - much like the carpenter that you mentioned in the video. I like the approach that you used, as it will likely result in a better looking result after a few years of house settling. However, that approach would likely add a few minutes to the construction time for each joint, and in that time a good finish carpenter using a nail gun might have installed several additional pieces of baseboard trim - we used regular hammers, nails, and nail sets to install trim, so the time savings would not have been as significant back then. Biscuit joiners were rare roughly 35 years ago - I bought my Porter Cable biscuit joiner in 1991.
Have you ever tried creating molding? I have a Foley-Belsaw 12 3/8" planer (actually I have three, but one is missing a few parts) that is able to cut crown molding and other types of molding. The previous owner of the planer paid around $3000 for the planer in the late 1990s, and used several styles of molding knives in the planer to create various type of molding for his woodworking business. I bought the planer with several molding knives at a bargain price in an estate auction in the mid-2000s, and never used the planer for creating moldings. I just recently bought a Pantorouter, and with its tilting table, I am thinking that the unit might also be able to create interesting moldings with the right router bits.
Thanks as always for watching! Much appreciated...
Yeah, I thought after filming that I should probably have noted that my video is more targeted towards the person who only has one room or one home to do in terms of crown molding. I'm sure if you have multiple homes to trim out, time is also a big consideration.
I've never tried making my own molding. One piece of equipment that I don't have, that I've thought of purchasing is a shaper to do just that. However, my lumber supplier has so many different types of molding products, they've been able to meet my needs so far...
Thanks again!