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   Guest_ | Aug 11, 1999 12:35am | #1

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   Joe,

   You may have well been asking how to do origami -- it's easier to illustrate than describe in words. I'm certain that any decent library will have books in their home area that illustrate how to cut crown moldings.

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   Guest_ | Aug 11, 1999 01:31am | #2

   *Two choices: miter or cope. There are standard angles for the cut. These are already posted on Breaktime, look in the archives.However, in each method the actual angles will be consequent to: a)the angle at which the walls meet, b)the angle at which the ceiling meets the walls. Walls generally are not at 90 degrees and the ceiling may rise or dip--or both--at the inside corner. Incidently, the crown does not go flat to the wall, but stands out at some angle between the wall & ceiling. Just had to throw that in after my mother recently told me of a friend who had the handyman over. The guy said he knew how...Have fun.

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   Guest_ | Aug 11, 1999 02:56am | #3

   *Joe:go to this link:http://www.askthebuilder.com/cgi-bin/bulletin?234:00229

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   Guest_ | Aug 11, 1999 06:31am | #4

   *LOL! I've found recently that a whole different set of rules applies when applying crown to wavy plaster walls and ceilings. "Copious" swearing does seem to help.

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   Guest_ | Aug 12, 1999 05:57am | #6

   *Upside down and backwards in the miter saw holding to the fence and base as if the molding were being placed on the wall. I then make a 45 degree cut. If i were mitering the corners this would be the final cut. However I prefer to cope so i scribe a pencil mark down the cut line at the face of the molding. Then i cope along this line holding the saw as close to parallel to the back of the molding as i can get.

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   joe_graceffo | Aug 12, 1999 05:57am | #5

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   How do you cut in the inside corners of crown moulding?