Only inexperienced diyers hit the fence while cutting crown molding on a miter saw.
Crown molding inside corner cuts with a compound miter saw.
Corner joints in crown molding are compound because each cut end has two angles a miter angle and a bevel angle.
These angles are the miter angle and bevel angle you can see the biggest benefit of compound saw in this way that the blade of the saw can be tilted to cut the bevel angle and it can be easily rotated to cut the miter too.
On an outside corner the bottom will be shorter.
Non compound method vertically nested the advantage to cutting crown molding using this method is that no bevel cut is required.
The joints in the crown molding are called compound because the cuts at every side have two angles.
The saw can be set to 45 degrees to the left or 45 degrees to the right.
Set miter angle to half wall angle.
These include the bevel angle and the miter angle.
One of the advantages of using a compound miter saw is that you can tilt it to make a bevel angel while rotating the saw will enable you to make a miter cut.
How to cut crown molding.
Therefore when adjusting the saw for out of square corners the user needs to only adjust the miter system as opposed to both miter and bevel systems when laying crown materials flat.
The saw can be adjusted to cut at any angle set it to 45 degrees for one side of a standard 90 degree corner.
The joints crown molding is referred as compound since the cut on every side usually has two angles.
Compound saws are advantageous because the saw tilts to cut the bevel and rotates to the left or right to cut the miter making both angles with a single cut.
The miter angle and the bevel angle to make it crystal clear the miter angle is the green 32 degrees and the bevel angle is the blue 34 degrees.
Rest bottom of molding against the fence and top of molding against table.
45 miter for 90 walls.
The joints found on a crown molding are labeled compound because the cuts on every side have two angles.
Once your angles are set be sure to recheck the position of your fence.
If using a compound miter saw set bevel angle to 0 no bevel on an inside corner the top of the molding will be shorter.
It s a best practice to cut crown moulding upside down on the miter saw.
