How to cut crown molding the easy way!

[Music] the funny part I'm going to set this up and put crown molding on this wall so what I'm going to do is mark off five and three quarters of an inch from the ceiling because my total distance from the ceiling to the bottom of the molding is 7 inches and I have an inch and a quarter thick stop holding that I'm going to put there I take my measurements when I'm doing crown molding and I'll measure off from one side of the wall to an even number now right here I have a hundred inches I already had someone hold a tape measure my son he held it on Eliot I meant from there to here and I have a hundred inches I just make it simple and round off I have a hundred inches right here so when I mention from this wall to that hundred inches I have thirty nine in the quarter so now I know this piece is going to be a hundred and thirty nine and a quarter inches and I mark it on the wall that way you get a perfect measurement because if you take this to pull it across this whole room and bend it on the wall it's going to be hard to get that exact measures all right once I determine where these lines are I have these lines and I know what the length is here I'm marking well for my studs now I'm going to measure over from my first stunt that I found and I'm gonna mark off 16 inches you can't guarantee that it's 16 inches there because framers make mistakes everybody makes mistakes and if they're running through a house sometimes they're off a little bit that gives me a good ballpark I can hit the wall right here I have a stud because I felt this one sometimes you won't feel it now just to make sure I'm going to use a stud finder and I'll come by with a stud finder make my marks I put my mark a little bit above where that molding is so that way I'm gonna know it's gonna be painting for one thing and the other thing is I'm gonna know exactly where my studs are for my crown and for this I'll nail it on here and then this is gonna be painted over so I'm not worried about never use a pen when you marking your walls because that's permanent use a pencil you can always erase it and then paint that section or you can just paint right over it usually it covers over easily with latex paint now I always use the Stryker pencil by Stryker hand tools this is a great little pencil because I always have lead I click the button that I've got leg I have refills for it so I keep this with me everywhere I go when cutting crown molding there's just a couple of things to remember and you'll be able to do it right every time usually the detail is on the bottom of the crown molding so the large span would be up top and this little code right here shows you that this is the bottom of the crown when you cut crown molding you have to flip it upside down and you're gonna cut backwards because your left becomes your right okay or on this side this is your right board you see what I'm talking about it just goes opposite no big deal if you cut into your length of board that's an inside cut this is an outside cut which means this is the bottom and this is a top and you see I'm cutting away from the length of my board if I cut away from the length of my board it's an outside cut if I cut into my length of the board it's an inside cut it's very simple all you do is mark your piece of wood if you have any trouble remembering once you do it a few times it becomes second nature but right now just mark your wood and you'll know exactly where to go this is an outside cut here is an inside cut let me put it the way it goes on the wall or your ceiling this part right here goes on the ceiling and you can see the long points at the bottom because that's what's going to touch your wall and go inward for an inside cut it's very simple now I want you to look at the saw because we're gonna set this all up and I'm gonna show you how to make sure you lay the crown molding on this fence properly on your saw okay pay attention carefully and I'm going to show you how to make this real easy this is a crown stop crown stops will slide back and forth and you can take it once your piece is set in place and you lock it down and that's going to keep every board exactly in the same spot so when you make your cuts every cuts going to be the same now before you lock this down just make sure you have this perfect against this wall if this sits up a little bit like this or down the other way you're gonna have a bad cut so you want to make sure this is perfectly flat against the back fence you set it in place and you lock it down okay now if you don't have crown stops I'm going to show you another easy way to make your cuts and keep them precise put a piece of tape on your on your base right here and on the other side don't put it in the middle because you swivel this it's gonna get torn the tapes gonna hang on there so if you put a piece of tape right here you take your crown making sure it's perfectly flush on there you take a sharp pencil and mark your line on both sides now once you mark that line you've got it there for your next piece you take your next piece as long as it's set on that line you're going to have a perfect cut it's very simple another thing that's going to really help you is you can put a piece of tape on this base part right here and just right top on it that way you know the top of this crown should match up with the base right here that says top okay as long as you have this the top party here on here matching this you know you're right if you put it up like this this is the bottom part of the crown it's not matching up it's easy before we start cutting we want to make sure that this saw is calibrated just remember one thing please WorkSafe when you're working around power equipment always unplug your saw before touching you blade and wear safety goggles it always helps what I do is I loosen the back up where there's swivels and I'll take a square and I set this square on my table once I set it on my table I will line up my saw to make sure that it is perfectly straight at a 90-degree angle so once I have it straight up and down at 90 degrees and I double-check it with my square I know I'm good and I'm gonna have perfect cuts every time if I'm gonna make an outside cut this is gonna be my long point so I'll just make a mark showing that that that's the direction okay like I said once you use to it you're gonna know but this is my direction so I set it upside down and you can see I still have my direction there I'm cutting away from the length of board because that's going to give me a perfect outside cut once I set this up I'll line it up with my line here on my tape I get a 45 degree [Music] and that's my cut now I'm gonna show you how we match it up all I'm doing is making a right and left-handed cut so they match together I'll put my lines together I'll make my cut and I'm just gonna cut this in half to show you you see my two outside pieces you put them together and there's my cut now let's go ahead and make an inside cut your inside cut the bottom part is gonna be a long point okay bottom points your long point so you know your angle goes inward from the bottom okay we're cutting into the length of wood so that means it's an inside cut what I do flip it upside down just like I did earlier I'm cutting this way into the length of wood because I'm going with the inside cut I set this on my line and I know I'm exact right on the line [Music] [Applause] keep in mind you don't want to ram this all quick into there and make a real chop cut because you'll have it frayed real bad and you'll have a nasty cut now I have this side I want to make this side this cut right here of course is an inside cut again so my bottom is my long point and I'm cutting into my lengths of wood keep that in your head and you'll never go wrong I'll flip up upside down set it at a 45-degree angle and then I'm going to set this on the line and make my cut now I'm going to take this and cut it in half just to show you how these maps [Music] this is the way it's going to go on the ceiling and that is my inside cut I'm gonna have another episode showing exactly how to cut crown with coping and a few more details right now we want to show how to finish this robot [Music]

Channel: Paul Ricalde

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Length: 9min 46sec (586 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 25 2011