Crown molding install

You can get a helper like this: http://www.tjak.com/ Or similar

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Check out a web site name cut-in-crown, they sure make it easy to install. I’ve use this product now for over four years and it still amazes me. There a great demo video worth watching Shawn hope this helps…Blkcherry

buy the outside and inside corner piecies and you dont have to make this cuts…cut one cut and it goes flush upon the blocks…..:))...is it cheating….i dont think so..its maybe on the , i will walk on the easy way and not complicate things…...lol…....cutting crown is a pain i think…....but its just an option

-- The Grizzone

Go to Cutting Crown Molding with Dewalt Miter saws. Dewalt.com

Hope this helps!

-- Mc Bridge Cabinets, Iowa

Don’t know how often your going to need it, but go to Toll King. They have the third hand right now for 39.00.
Simple, easy and inexpensive.

-- Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy-May all your dovetails fit tight and right the first time

I would get my son or son-in-law to help.

Or try this from FastCap—May be what UnionLabel is talking about
http://www.fastcap.com/3rdhandhd.aspx

-- Kent Shepherd * The goal is-----More Tools!

I’ve run miles of it by myself. cut a guage block by bedding a piece of crown and measure the height of it bedded. make some marks on the walls with the block. partially drive a finish nail at the end away from you at the line. rest the crown on the nail and walk your end up the ladder. nail it up to your lines and stay away from the end about 4 feet. cope the next piece and cut to length. do the second piece same as the first with the nail to the other end. use the cope to fit the first and second piece at your end . the lsat piece is a double cope. cut it about 1/16”-1/8” long. bow it out in the middle and snap it in. Crown is simple once you get past the fear factor. :-}

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I cut small blocks of MDF two different lengths. I brad nail the longer over the shorter. I figure out how much wall the crown molding will cover and measure that distance down from the ceiling every 6 feet. I tack my “brackets” at the mark with the longer one on the outside. I curl the molding into them and then go to the corner and start nailing. I can put 400 ft in a day by myself.

-- Mike in Waubaushene, ON

Try this Shawn

http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=2&cat=1,43456,62045&p=62045

Andrew

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You Dont really need a jig. Flip that bad boy upside down. Hold the top of the crown to the bed of you saw and the back to your fince. As long as you fence is tall enough your golden. Here a tip, before putting you mitre together get a marker that is close the color of your molding or even better use the stain that you stained it with (if you have it). Color the mitres before putting it up and your joints look perfect everytime even it they aren’t.

-- Rogue

Thanks for all the great tips. I will be cutting and hanging today. Blackcherry, I ordered the cut n crown and am excited to try it out. Thanks again

-- ShawnH "A little knowledge is a tool for disaster." Chinese porverb

Rogue-

You are right. I had a crown molding project handed to me a while back and, while despairing as to how I was going to do it right, happened to google “install crown molding” on Youtube. The guy in the video indicated exactly what you said, resulting in a personal “face-palm” moment. It took me about an afternoon to do two bedrooms worth of molding, with surprisingly little waste. Good idea about coloring the mitre, tho – wish I’d thought of that!

-- Gord M, Nova Scotia, Canada

All good tips great info guys.

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop, custom furniture ,maker, woodworking school, heirloomwoodshop.com

I think I’ll call Skeezics or Mike Pousson!

-- John @ Myrtle Beach