The saw can be adjusted to cut at any angle set it to 45 degrees for one side of a standard 90 degree corner.
Crown molding inside corner cuts with a compound miter saw.
Using a power miter saw is the best way to cut crown moulding angles.
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.
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.
45 miter for 90 walls.
The joints found on a crown molding are labeled compound because the cuts on every side have two angles.
Corner joints in crown molding are compound because each cut end has two angles a miter angle and a bevel angle.
After your first corner is done flip the crown molding end to end to readjust your miter position.
Once your angles are set be sure to recheck the position of your fence.
How to cut crown molding.
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.
Only inexperienced diyers hit the fence while cutting crown molding on a miter saw.
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.
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.
Set miter angle to half wall angle.
If you have a sliding two piece fence you might want to slide one side of it out of the way.
Non compound method vertically nested the advantage to cutting crown molding using this method is that no bevel cut is required.
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.
It s a best practice to cut crown moulding upside down on the miter saw.
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.
On an outside corner the bottom will be shorter.