I did a crown project today. Of the 11 corners in the room, 6 of them were 135 degrees – 2 outside and 4 inside.
Is it possible to cope these corners?
I tried one of the inside corners and I couldn’t back-cut enough to get it flush.
I did a crown project today. Of the 11 corners in the room, 6 of them were 135 degrees – 2 outside and 4 inside.
Is it possible to cope these corners?
I tried one of the inside corners and I couldn’t back-cut enough to get it flush.
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depends on the crown profile....
if it is the standard 4'' ogee shaped crown, it's copable...
regards
You can't cope outside mitres and you would be better to mitre the acute inside ones,as you would be removing too much stock from the back.
Edited 4/7/2007 4:56 am ET by mack9110000
No wonder you had a problem - I never cope an outside corner!
For inside ccorners at 135° I would probably miter cut them
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Depending on the profile, I would cope those 135° inside corners with a grinder...outside corners would get mitered and glued, and possibly pinned on the bench. Outside of the gates the trucks were unloadin',
The weather was hot, a-nearly 90 degrees.
The man standin' next to me, his head was exploding,
Well, I was prayin' the pieces wouldn't fall on me.
Doncha glue all your miters? I do 75% of the time. The other 25% of the time I don't just cause I don't...lol. I always try to. Makes me wonder though...I see articles where some of these anal dudes "claim" they use bisquits on 2 1/2" colonial type casings. What a hassle that'd be.
I'm thinking of gluing my moldings right to the jambs from now on.
I was looking at a set of moldings I put on my bedroom door and it was all broken away from the jamb. I'm thinking ..."WOW...the addition really musta settled bad"...or I suck in my old age...I didn't do a good job....grrrrr wahhhh.
Then I start thinking that that old fashion skelton keyed face mounted lock set I put on wasn't working either and by now I'm really down on myself , then I remembered when my dayghter asked my wife if she could go out with a friend at 11:30 at night and DW said no...My daughter....I mean DW's daughter...lol...."SLAMMMMMMEDDDDD" the door closed really hard behind her. Whewwww...then I felt better....I think.
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The outside corners on the 135s are (IMO) a little easier than the 90s. Those two would have been fine just by themselves. But for each of the outside 135s, one of the two boards had an inside 135 at the other end. It's never fun to try to match up mitres on both ends of a board. And if this were all 90s, one end of these boards would have been coped.
I've gotten proficient enough at coping that having to mitre these extra four corners was frusturating. Probably added at least a half hour to my day.
It also didn't help that whoever built this house liked to back the mud on the corners. Every corner (inside and out) was built up too much to ignore. I had to trim down the bottom of almost every piece to account for the bumps.
Yesterday is the first time that I've glued every joint that I could. I'm going to make that a habit from now on. “The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds..” – Hume